13th Century Psalter Leaf
- Categories
- Special Collections > McConnell Library Manuscript Collection
- Subject
- Psalter
- Medieval manuscripts
- Type
- parchment
- Coverage - Temporal
- 1200
- Identifier
- 13 Psalter
- Language
- Latin
- Publisher
- Radford University. McConnell Library. Archives & Special Collections
- Description
- Original continuous bifolium from a medieval manuscript Psalter. 19 lines, written in Latin on animal parchment in small gothic bookhand with serrated line extenders in red, blue, and burnished gold. One large three-line illuminated initial in burnished gold on burgundy and blue ground with an interior of delicate white tracery and orange flowers extending into the margin. The one-line illuminated "I" begins Psalm 30 (King James 31) 14 - 25: "In eo dum . . ." The three-line illuminated "B" begins Psalm 31 (King James 32): 1 - 9: "Beati . . ."
- Rights
- In the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of Archives & Special Collections, McConnell Library, Radford University as a source for borrowed images is requested.
