Walters Ms. W.70, Misbound liturgical Psalter Psalms Canticles, the Lord's prayer, and creeds Litany, petitions, and collects Meditation on the Passion Psalter Cataloger Dutschke, Consuelo Cataloger Sciacca, Christine Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Herbert, Lynley Editor Noel, William Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Davis, Lisa Fagin Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Hamburger, Jeffrey Contributor Klemm, Elizabeth Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This Gallican Psalter was created in the diocese of Constance, Southern Germany, in the first half of the thirteenth century. The psalms, which originally had an eight-part liturgical division, have been badly misbound, and approximately half of them are lost entirely. Extensively illuminated with over 100 historiated, inhabited, and decorated initials, the manuscript is impressive even in its fragmentary state. The saints found in the litany help locate the manuscript to Constance, and also suggest Cistercian use. That the manuscript was well used is attested to by late thirteenth-century additions of antiphons in the margins, as well as an added German meditation on the Passion of the same period. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.70 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 68v Psalter Manuscript is incomplete and badly misbound; the correct order has been reconstructed in the part dedicated to the psalms 1r - 52v Psalms Dixit dominus domino meo Psalms are misbound and incomplete; correct order of contents as follows: [missing Psalms 1-70:16] fols. 13r-22v: Psalms 70:16 (iusticiae)-79:2 (qui[deducis]); fols. 2r-11v: Psalms 79:2 (sedes)-90:10 (appro[pinquabit]); [missing Psalms 90:10-101:16] fols. 23r-33r: Psalms 101:16 (timebunt)-108; fols. 1 and 12 are a bifolium: Psalms 109-113:9 (super); fols. 34r-52v: Psalms 113:9 (misericordia)-139:5 (meas); [missing Psalms 139:6-150] 53r - 63v Canticles, the Lord's prayer, and creeds Canticum Ysaiae. Confitebor tibi Fols. 53r-62r: Canticles of Isaiah; fol. 62r: Lord's Prayer; fol. 62r-v: Apostle's Creed; fols. 62v-64r: Athanasian Creed 64r - 68r Litany, petitions, and collects Kyrieleison Fols. 64r-65v: litany, notable saints include those for Constance and several Cistercian: SS. Pelagius, Malachia (Cistercian), Peter (possibly Peter, Bishop of Tarentas, Cistercian), Conrad (Bishop of Constance), Robert (Cistercian), Regula (venerated in Constance), Wiborada, Verena; fols. 65v-67r: petitions; fols. 67v-68r: collects 68v - 68v Meditation on the Passion Der sinv zit nuzzecliche Meditation on the Passion added in German on the final blank folio, late thirteenth century, ends imperfectly (zu dinem reinem munde. dich durste...)

Heavy, well-finished cream-colored parchment

 Foliation: i+68+i22.0 15.3 15.6 11.0 Flyleaves are modern parchment; modern pencil foliation, upper and lower right corners, rectos

1(12), 2(10), 3(8), 4(6), 5-8(8) None None Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 13(2), 23(3), 31(4), 37(5), 45(6), 53(7), 61(8)

 Ruled in plummet (only faintly visible) Compact scholastic script; different, slightly later hand than rest of manuscript Formal gothic bookhand; marginal antiphons in a later gothic hand Historiated initials fols. 3v, 7r, 17r, 22r, 35r, 37v, 42v, 45v, 46v, 47r-v, 50r, 51r, and 52v; decorated initials throughout Historiated initials 53r, 56r, and 62v; decorated initials throughout Decorated initials throughout Seventeen historiated initials (3-4 lines); two large decorated initials (7-8 lines); eighty-three small inhabited or decorated initials with grotesques, animals, or foliage (3 lines); initials mainly in pink, blue, and/or red with white accents on burnished gold grounds; small initials throughout (1 line) in alternating red and blue with penwork decoration of the reverse color; incipits for Psalms 80 and 109 in gold; some incipits in red, or alternating red and blue or black letters; first initial of each line in litany in alternating red and blue; rubrics in red and occasionally gold; text in black ink Foliate initial "D" marking liturgical division Psalm 109 Decorated initial "D," 8 lines Foliate initial "E" with bird-headed fish marking liturgical division Psalm 80 Inhabited initial "E," 7 lines Initial "D" with a Jewish priest Psalm 81 Historiated initial "D," 3 lines Initial "D" with an apostle Psalm 87 Historiated initial "D," 3 lines Initial "N" with an apostle Psalm 75 Historiated initial "N," 3 lines Initial "D" with a fool holding a club Psalm 78 Historiated initial "D," 3 lines Initial "C" with a Jewish priest Psalm 117 Historiated initial "C," 3 lines Initial "A" with a Jewish priest Psalm 118:25 Historiated initial "A," 3 lines Initial "C" with a Jewish priest Psalm 118:145 Historiated initial "C," 3 lines Initial "Q" with an apostle Psalm 124 Historiated initial "Q," 3 lines Initial "B" with a Jewish priest Psalm 127 Historiated initial "B," 3 lines Initial "D" with a deacon Psalm 129 Historiated initial "D," 3 lines Initial "D" with an apostle Psalm 130 Historiated initial "D," 3 lines Initial "C" with an apostle Psalm 135 Historiated initial "C," 3 lines Initial "C" an apostle Psalm 137 Historiated initial "C," 3 lines Initial "E" with a Jewish priest Psalm 139 Historiated initial "E," 3 lines Initial "C" with King David Canticle of Isaiah Historiated initial "C," 4 lines Initial "D" with a Jewish priest Canticle of Habakkuk Historiated initial "D," 3 lines Initial "Q" with an apostle Athanasian Creed Historiated initial "Q," 3 lines

Late nineteenth-or early twentieth-century binding by Léon Gruel, Paris; red velvet over millboard(?); page edges are gilded

 First half of the 13th century CE Constance, Germany Created in the first half of the thirteenth century for use in the diocese of Constance in Southern Germany; saints in litany suggest was possibly Cistercian (SS. Robert, Malachie, and Peter) Léon Gruel and Robert Engelmann collection, Paris, late nineteenth century, no. 394 Léon Gruel collection, Paris, before 1905, no. 2 Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel, 1905 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 769, cat. no. 79. Baltimore Museum of Art. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy: A Three-Part Exhibition. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1965, 1972, cat. no. 26. 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 Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Christian Codex Manuscript German Psalter Germany Devotion Book Illumination Walters Art Museum 13th century Gothic book hand Grotesques Historiated initial