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The Penitent King David from a Book of Hours

November 27, 2019 in Manuscript Studies

J. S. Wagner Collection. Detached Manuscript Leaf with the Opening in Latin of the Penitent Psalm 4 or Psalm 37 (38) and its Illustration of King David.

Detached Manuscript Leaf on Vellum
with Framed Illustration and Text

King David with Crown and Lyre
at the Opening of Psalm 6 or 37 (38) in Latin from a Book of Hours

At least circa 125 × 160 mm (as framed and matted)

Rouen, circa 1480–90
or Western France circa 1470

J. S. Wagner Collection

[Posted on 27 November 2019, with updates, for which we thank our Honorary Trustee, James H. Marrow, and our Honorary Invited Associate, Gregory T. Clark.]

J. S. Wagner Collection, Detached Leaf. Opening of Psalm 6 or 37 (38) in 4 lines.J. S. Wagner Collection, Detached Leaf. Opening of Psalm 6 or 37 (38) in 4 lines, with an enlarged and decorated initial D for "Domine"..

J. S. Wagner Collection, Detached Leaf. Opening of Psalm 6 or 37 (38) in 4 lines.

Continuing our exploration of manuscript fragments in our Blog on Manuscript Studies, we welcome a new addition to the quest. See the Contents List for this blog, mostly written by Mildred Budny, for the series of revelations.

From the collection of J. S. Wagner, we offer images from a detached leaf on Vellum in Latin apparently from a Book of Hours. Some of our earlier posts have addressed Books of Hours. See our Contents List.

At present, the Wagner leaf is contained within a frame, so that only one side is visible.  It might be the recto or verso of the leaf. If the former, the reader and beholder would have to turn the page in order to advance to the sequential text. If the latter, the facing page would have manifested it at a glance.

As it stands, the page presents the illustrated opening of one of the Penitential Psalms in Latin in the Vulgate Version from a luxurious Book of Hours.  The ambition of its production is manifested by the script, illustration, and decoration, as well as the use of gold and other pigments. The quality of the execution, however, exhibits some haste in places.

The set of Penitential Psalms comprise Psalms 6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142 (that is, 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, and 143 in the Hebrew numbering).
The opening of text upon the page corresponds to Verse 1 of both Psalm 6 and Psalm 37 (38).  See below for those options.  That is, at present, given the state of the leaf, we don’t know which.

Now contained within a frame behind glass, this page might represent the recto or the verso of the leaf.  For example, if the other side (if the verso) continues the text, it would establish which Psalm is represented.  If the other side (if the recto) is the formerly previous text, then it might designate some Psalm or otherwise in the liturgical sequence.

Needless to say, problems aplenty can arise when a leaf is excised and dispersed without accompanying information.  (Examples and their challenges appear in many of our blogposts.  See our Contents List.)

Call it detective work, and you would be right on track.  The good thing is that sharing of images and information might yield increased knowledge.  We thank the owner for sharing his images with us, and we thank our friends, colleagues, Associates, and Trustees for helping to discover more information about the center from which this leaf came.

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Tags: "Beyond Use" website, Book of Hours, Books of Hours, Crown, Flemish Psalter Illustration, J.S. Wagner Collection, King David, Lyre, Museu Gulbenkian LA 135, Penitent Psalms, Playfair Hours, Poitiers, Psalm 37 (38), Psalm 6, Rouen
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2014 Symposium on “Recollections of the Past”

July 15, 2014 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Bembino, Conference Announcement, Events

Recollections of the Past:
Editorial & Artistic Workshops
from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity & Beyond

Friday & Saturday 16 & 17 May 2014
138 Lewis Library
Princeton University

Save the Date Announcement for Symposium on "Recollections of the Past" (May 2015) in its completed version with border

“Save the Date” Announcement (complete)

RGME Symposium 2014 Program & Abstracts Page 1 with border

Symposium Program Page 1

Poster for "Recollections of the Past" Symposium (May 2014) with border

Symposium Poster

 

[First published on 15 July 2014, with updates.  And now with the corrected Program Booklet:
RGME Symposium 2014 Program & abstracts corrected]

The “Save the Date” Announcement (Save the Date 16-17 May 2014) set the stage by describing the intentions and scope of the subject.  To sum up:

This symposium explored the workings of workshops, as revealed through the traces of artists, craftsmen, scribes, authors, editors, printers, and patrons, across a wide range of subjects, regions, and materials, in transitions from classical antiquity and early Christianity through the long Middle Ages and thence to the early modern period and beyond. We seek to discern how these editorial agents of whatever kind shaped and reshaped materials — tangible and intangible — in transmitting the legacy of the past, often in the process to form works which perhaps seemed more viable in changing times, expectations, and systems of belief. Memory may hold a significant place among the materials, processes, and forces at work in the processes of collecting, shaping, and, in many cases, transforming complex bodies of evidence in a robust or precarious voyage from the past.

The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence warmly thank the Sponsors, Donors, and Contributors to the Symposium, which formed part of the celebrations for our 2014 Anniversary Year.  Other celebrations have included our Sessions at the 2014 International Congress on Medieval Studies in May, along with an Anniversary Reception. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: bokes of antiquity, Books of Hours, Caroline Lybbe Powys, Carolingian Studies, Church History, Codex Amiatinus, Courtly Love Ivories, Department of Art & Archaeology, Domestic Grand Tour, Early Modern Studies, Editorial Practices, erasable notebooks, Eusebian Canon Tables, History of Cambridge University, History of Workshops, Iconoclasm studies, Index of Christian Art, John Caius, Manuscript Illumination, Manuscript studies, Matthew Parker, Medieval Studies, Monkwearmouth-Jarrow, periodization of history, Princeton University, Qal'at Sim'an, Romanesque Sculpture, Saint-Sernin of Toulouse, Syriac Cave of Treasures
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2012 Congress

January 1, 2014 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Bembino, Conference Announcement, ICMS, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

47th International Congress on Medieval Studies

10–13 May 2012

[First published on our first website on *15 December 2011, with updates there and here]

Our four Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Sessions at the 2012 Congress examined the material culture and production of written records in Western Europe and beyond, and the dispersal, recovery, and preservation of those works in various forms and widespread locations.  Besides these interlinked subjects, our highlighted genre was “Dream Books”, appearing in multiple manifestations in both manuscript and print.

One Session was the second in our series at the Congress on “Medieval Writing Materials”.  Its series (2011–2014 and, intended, 2016) is listed in our Sponsored Conference Sessions.

This year, for the first time, after the debut of a single illustrated Poster for one of our sponsored Sessions at the 2011 Congress, an illustrated Posters accompanied both of our own Sponsored Sessions.  Since 2015, the full series of illustrated Posters for Congress Sessions and other Events appear in our Gallery of Posters on Display. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: Alchemy, Archaeology, Bembino Digital Font, Books of Hours, British Library, Chinese Manuscripts, Codicology, Datini Archives, Dream Books, Dream Divination, Ethiopic Manuscripts, History of Paper, History of Scotland, Islamic Manuscripts, Manuscript Illumination, Manuscripts & Early Printed Books, Medieval & Modern Scribal Practices, Medieval China, Medieval Italian Studies, Medieval Manuscript Collecting, Medieval manuscripts, Medieval Writing Materials, Mediterranean Trade, Middle English, Multi-spectral Imaging, North American Library History, Oneirocritical Manuscripts, Parc Abbey Bible, Pigment Analysis, Societas Magica, Somniale Danielis, Venice
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2009 Congress

January 1, 2014 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Conference Announcement, ICMS, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

Research Group Activities at the

44th International Congress on Medieval Studies

7–10 May 2009

[First published on our first website on *20 December 2008, with updates]

For the 2009 Congress, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence sponsored one Session.

It also co-sponsored

  • one Session with the Societas Magica, in the fourth year of this co-sponsorship, and
  • one inaugural session with the new organization MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application), supporting its formation which followed our session at the 2008 Congress.
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Tags: al-Bun, Blonde Esmerée, Books of Hours, Ellesmere Manuscript, Francesco da Barberino, Grendelkin, Historyof Magic, Hortus Deliciarum, Incantations, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Magical Spells, Manuscript Illumination, Manuscript studies, Marginalia, MEARCSTAPA, Medieval Muslim Magician, Medieval Studies, Munich Manual of Demonic Magic, Nun's Priest Tale, Papyri Graecae Magicae, Piccatrix, Sarah Celentano Parker, Shams al-ma'aris, Societas Magica, Solomon and Saturn II, Voyerism, Weapons in Magic
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