Walters Ms. W.114, Psalter, with Cistercian Ordinary for ferial Office Psalms Weekly Canticles Additional Weekly Canticles Added Cistercian Ordinary for ferial Office Added Psalm 1 and Comment Psalter Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Bucca, Lauren Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Bucca, Lauren Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Noel, William Contributor Schuele, Allyson Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Contributor Wiegand, Kimber Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This psalter was produced ca. 1250-75 in a region of northeastern France that was at the time considered Flanders. The manuscript seems to have been transported to Italy, on the evidence of textual additions associated with the Italian Cistercians, ownership by a person affiliated with the Italian Cistercian foundation, and ownership by Bartolomeus dala Vale. The manuscript is incomplete as well as misbound, containing Psalms, canticles, and the Cistercian Ordinary for ferial Office. There are seven extant historiated initials and occasional penwork creatures. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.114 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is Italian. 1r - 213v Psalter Psalter with Cistercian Ordinary for ferial office, added in the fifteenth century 1r - 178v Psalms Dixi custodiam Incomplete and misbound nine-partite biblical psalter; correct order as follows: fols. 3v-46v: Psalm 1.1-37.11; fol. 2r-v: Psalm 37.12-23 (end of psalm); fol. 1r-v: Psalm 38.1-11; fols. 47r-60v: Psalm 38.12-50.10; fols. 61v-178v: Psalm 51.4-150 178v - 189v Weekly Canticles Confitebor tibi Weekly canticles include the following openings: "Confitebor tibi...Ego dixi...Exultauit cor...Cantemus domino...Domine audiui...Audite celi...Benedicite omnia...(imperfect ending) laudet et super exaltet eum in secula." 190r - 196r Additional Weekly Canticles Benedicite montes Fols. 190r-196r continues weekly canticles in a ca. fourteenth/fifteenth century hand: "Benedicite montes et colles...Te deum...Benedictus dominus...Canticum beate marie. Magnificat ania...Oracia domenicca [sic]. Pater noster...Credo in deum...Quicumque uult..." 197r - 212v Added Cistercian Ordinary for ferial Office Sabbato ante domenicam .i. per octavam epiphanie ad vesperas Capitulum Benedicta deus Fols. 197r-208v is the Cistercian Ordinary for ferial Office, covering the entire liturgical year; fols. 208v-212v is the Office of the Dead for use by the Cistercians; fol. 212v contains cues for prayers 213r - 213v Added Psalm 1 and Comment Beatus vir qui Sixteenth- or seventeenth-century addition in an Italian hand; contains the beginning of Psalm 1 as well as the following comment: "Iste est calorius salterii [sic] sicut in diebus post transmigrationem babilonis . . . /. . . et sic de singulis faciebat usque in finem."

Thin to medium-weight parchment, fairly heavily grimed; flyleaf i is parchment added in the fourteenth century

 Foliation: i+21314.0 9.2 6.5 8.4 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos

Quire 1: 2, bifolio that has been bound in reverse (fols. 1-2); Quires 2-5: 10 (fols. 3-42); Quire 6: 10, with the fifth and sixth folios removed and misbound as quire 1 (fols. 43-50); Quire 7: 10 (fols. 51-60); Quire 8: 10, with the first folio missing (fols. 61-69); Quires 9-20: 10 (fols. 70-189); Quire 21: 8, with the first folio cancelled (fols. 190-196); Quires 22-23: 8 (fols. 197-213) None Catchword visible only on fol. 204v Manuscript misbound; see Psalter part for reconstruction of correct order

 Ruled in lead; fol. 213r-v not ruled; layout does not apply to additional fols. 190r-213r: ruling in brown-black ink with 20 line columns and written space 10 x 7 cm Fourteenth/fifteenth-century Italian hand Fifteenth-century Italian hand; different hand than the one seen in fols. 190r-196v Sixteenth- or seventeenth-century cursive Italian hand Textura; different hands in Psalter and additions; several hands involved in secondary decoration evinced by the alternation of conventional and creative sequences Seven historiated initials: fols. 1r, 30r, 61v, 78v, 99r, 117v, and 137v Seven historiated initials in uniform style except for the more artful initials beginning Psalms 26 and 38 (8-9 lines); decorated illuminated initials at secondary texts in gold letters, alternating between rose, blue, or mauve backgrounds (2 lines); flourished versals in blue and red with endings in foliage, dragon, and bird design; variety of line fillers including a man's legs and a bird with long, crooked feet (1 line); additional fols. 190r-213r contain non-decorated red initials (2 lines); main text in black ink with additions in brown ink Initial "D" with King David and Christ Psalm 38 Historiated initial "D," 9 lines Initial "D" with God blessing praying man (likely David) Psalm 26 Historiated initial "D," 13 lines Initial "D" with fool and devil Psalm 52 Historiated initial "D," 12 lines Initial "S" with Christ blessing from heaven while David is half-submerged in water Psalm 68 Historiated initial "S," 16 lines Initial "E" with King David ringing bells Psalm 80 Historiated initial "E," 8 lines Initial "C" with three clerics in front of lectern Psalm 97 Historiated initial "C," 8 lines Initial "D" with the Trinity Psalm 109 Historiated initial "D," 15 lines

Rebound in the nineteenth century, dark olive green velvet binding; modern cast metal ring at the middle fore-edge of the upper cover; cast fastening-plate centered at the fore-edge of the lower cover

 Ca. 1250-1275 CE Northeast France (French Flanders) Created in northeastern France (French Flanders), third quarter of the thirteenth century Owner associated with the Italian Cistercian foundation, ca. fourteenth or fifteenth century; Italian hand added lines on fols. 197r-212v in the fifteenth century as part of the Cistercian Ordinary for ferial Office Bartholomeus dala Vale, seventeenth-century; inscription on flyleaf i, r: "D BARTOLOMEUS DALA VALE HUNC/ POSSEDET LIB/ RUM/ IO. BAPT. STR:"; name copied in capitals on tail-edge of manuscript Alphonse Labitte, Paris, nineteenth century; armorial bookplate containing motto "EXCELSIOR" on front pastedown Bernard Quaritch, London, cat. 269 (1908), no. 426; cat. 290 (1910), no. 212 Leo S. Olschki, Florence, early twentieth century; Olschki's number, invoice number "33573" on front pastedown Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Olschki between 1910 and 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 772, cat. no. 96. Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1. France, 875-1420. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989; pp. 81-82, cat. no. 35. Art Medicine Museum Poetry Script Muhammad, the Prophet Kashmiri Horses Walters Art Museum Document Astrology Devotion History Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Philosophy Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Mineralogy Logic Geography Geomancy Cosmology Cartography Fortune-telling Koran Qur`an Firman Palimpsest Prayer Bible Gospels Psalter Missal Lectionary Book of Hours Antiphonary Homilary Processional Horologion Breviary Hymnal Chronicle Maghreb Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Afghanistan Central Asia Egypt England India Iran Iraq Pakistan Germany France Austria Netherlands Ethiopia Armenia Flanders Greece Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Armenian Byzantine Abbasid Qajar Rajput Christian Arabic Austrian Dutch Egyptian Fatimid German Indian Islamic Persian Safavid Timurid Turkish Umayyad English French Flemish Ethiopian Carolingian Calligraphy Colophon Headpiece Illumination Illustration Medallion Miniature Ornament Painting Early Abbasid script Ragini Romanesque Gothic Watermark Grotesques Historiated initial Inhabited initial White-vine lettering Textura Batarda Humanistic Uncial Accordion book Album Book Codex Manuscript Heraldry Saint's Life Drawing Grisaille Binding New Abbasid style Musical notation Russia Romania Charter Russian Genealogy Mass book Prayer book Gospel Lectionary Psalter-Hours Treatise Grammar Gloss Pontifical Private devotional text Gradual Protective scroll Scroll 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 8th century 9th century Block book Caroline minuscule Central Arab lands (Near East) Chart English secretary hand Kufic Gothic book hand Original binding Treasure binding Gospel Book Spanish Spain Italian Italy Coptic Scrapbook American United States Maryland Historical Society Friendship book Friendship Biography Judaism Talmud Collection of Sermons Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Psalter Christian Flemish Book Codex Historiated initial Illumination Inhabited initial Manuscript Miniature Textura Walters Art Museum France 13th century Devotion Scripture French Flanders