CHD Psalterium Ordinis Predicatorum
Psalterium Thott 533 4° (Northern France/Flanders c.1440/50)
Copenhagen Kongelige Bibliotek Ms. Thott 533 4°
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Thott 4° 533 Psalterium (Dominican Psalter) (c.1440/50)
238ff. 188x135mm, 19 lines (102x66), calendar 33 lines (106x82), textura. 8 historiated initials with floriated borders. Richly decorated with lombards alternating in blue and gold, with penwork in red and black ink. Line-endings are in blue and gold.
Illumination by one of the artists otherwise working in the Northern Netherlands under the name of "The Masters of Otto van Mordrecht" (Master B, Claes Brouwer etc.)
Binding in green morocco (18th. cent.), gilt tooled on the spine. Title on the spine:
/HEURES M.SS/SUR VELIN/AVEC MINIATUR// (cf. binding on Thott 540 4°).
Collation: (Original regular sequence of gatherings, with catchwords, no notes)
Prov.: Made for use in an unidentified Dominican monastery in Northern France or Flanders;
On a flyleaf in ink: 10-; In pencil a price: 2.12.6; Bibl.Thott. VII, p.408, no.533; Bibl.: C.Bruun, 1889, p.142; E.Jørgensen, Catalogus p.211-12; Gyldne Bøger 1952 Cat.no.143;
L.M.J.Delaissé: A Century of Dutch Manuscript Illumination, Berkeley and Los Angeles 1968, p.72, fig.127;
Saskia van Bergen: De Meesters van Otto van Moerdrecht. Een onderzoek naar de stijl en iconografie van een groep miniaturisten, in relatie tot de productie van getijdenboeken in Brugge rond 1430. Dissertatie Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2007, p.303-307
Contents:
f.1blank (2 flyleaves where the second has been removed)
ff.2-7v°KALENDARIUM (Liturgical Dominican calendar)
Identical with the calendar found in the later printed editions of the Dominican Breviary
PSALTERIUM DAVITICUM
f.8¶Beatus vir. [Ps.1] ¶The Betrayal in Gethsemane [Initial c.56x60 mm, border area c.160x120 mm]
f.35v° ¶Dominus illuminatio. [Ps.26] ¶Jesus before Pilate [Under the border below is written an instruction for the artist in faint ink: "Pilatus"]
f.53v°¶Dixi custodiam.[Ps.38] ¶The Flagellation [Under the border is written: "geseling"]
f.69v°¶Quid gloriaris [Ps.51] (large gilted initial (¶5), and halfborder)
f.70v°¶Dixit insipiens.[Ps.52] ¶The Carrying of the Cross [Under the border is written: "cruus dragen"]
f.87v°¶Salvum me fac.[Ps.68] ¶The Crucifixion
f.108v°¶Exultate deo. [Ps.80] ¶The Descent from the Cross
f.128¶Cantate domino-quia.[Ps.97] ¶The Entombment
f.130¶Domine exaudi.[Ps.101] (large gilted initial (¶5), and halfborder)
f.149¶Dixit dominus. [Ps.109] ¶The Coronation of the Virgin [Under the border is written: "cronement"]
f.191v°Laudate dominum in sanctis.[Ps.150]
CANTICA ECCLESIE
f.192Canticum. ¶Confitebor tibi domine quoniam iratus es michi: (large gilted initial (¶5), and halfborder)
ATHANASIA
f.207Cymbolum apostolorum. Quicumque vult salvus esse.
LITANIE OMNIUM SANCTORUM
f.210Letania. Martyres: Stephane, Clemens, Corneli, Cypriane, Laurenti, Vincenti, Xpristofore, Georgi, Dyonisi cum, Maurici cum, Nichasij cum, Sebastiane, Thoma, Petre, Pyate, Ypolite, omnes;
Confessores: Silvester, Hylari, Martyne, Augustine, Ambrosi, Iheronime, Gregori, Nicholae, Dominice, Thoma, Fransisce, Blasi, Benedicte, Bernarde, Anthoni, Ludovice, Alexi, omnes-;
Virgines: Maria Magdalena, Maria egyptiace, Margareta, Katherina, Scolastica, Anna, Lucia, Martha, Felicitas, Perpetua, Agatha, Agnes, Cecilia, Ursula, Karitas, Iuliana, omnes-; (Litania #227)
f.215v°Prayers, explicit f.216v°.
f.217-217v° Unwritten [some pages are missing from here]
COMMENDATIO ANIMARUM
f.###[One leaf missing with the introduction: Subvenite sancti dei, (cf. NKS 132 4°) see f.224. ->Ora.Misericordiam tuam domine sancte pater->>fra//]
f.218/gilitatis confundantur erroribus, sed potius agnoscantur- >perpetuo satietur.Per.
ã.Suscipiat. Ps.In exitu israel [Ps.113]. ã.Suscipiat eas xpristus qui notavit eas et in sinu abrahe angeli deducant eas.
Ora.Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui humano corpori->
f.219->fideliter adoraverunt.Qui.Per.
ãn.Chorus angelorum. [Pss.114 etc.]
f.220Ora.Dixi vulneris novitate percussi ->>cetibus aggregari precipias. Qui cum etc.//
f.220v°Pr.nr. Non intres in iudicium. A porta inferi. Erue. Domine exaudi.
Ora.Partem beate resurrectionis obtineant.
Ora.Deus cui soli competit medicinam prestare post mortem ->>per te munerentur. Per.//
OFFICIUM DEFUNCTORUM ANIMARUM
f.221/Se aucuns voelt faire ce service qui chi apries est escrips par cent et l. iours pour aucune ame elle seroit delivree de quelconques paine que elle souffera en espurgatoire. Che esprouva bien une sainte nonne en la delivranche de sen frere qui fu ocis. Car quant elle eubt fait ce service, ses freres saparu a li esioissant et dist que il estoit delivres des paines et dou tourment que il devoit soustenir iusques au iour dou iugement. Et nostre sires le delivra dedens .xx. iours la premiere psalme doit estre ditte toute hors en lonneur et en le ramembranche de nostre signeur ihesucrist. Ps.Deus deus meus respice: ut supra.
Ora.Domine ihesu xpriste in honore vociferationis qua invocasti patrem.
f.221v°Chi apries sensieut le secunde psalme. Ps.In te domine speravi.
Ora.Domine ihesu xpe pro honore commendationis qua animam tuam.
Chi sensieut le tierche psalme. Ps. Inclina domine aurem.
Ora.Domine ihesu xpriste misericordie tue imploramus auxilium.
f.222Chi sensieut le iiije psalme. Ps.Confitemini domino quoniam bonus.
Ora.Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui omnes fideles in tormentis.
Ps.dd. Domine probasti me.
Ceste psalme doit on dire en lonneur de nostre signeur ihesucrist qui desrompi// les claus dinfier, quil desrompe le pooir que li dyables a en ceste ame pour le quelle tu labeures.
Ora.Domine ihesu xpe hos psalmos cantavimus ad honorem nominus tui-> dissipare digneris.Amen.
Le psalme de le foy. Quicumque vult salvus esse, ut supra.
Et le doit on dire en lonneur et en le ramembranche des ames qui resusciterent avoec ihesucrist quil voelle ceste ame delivrer de tenebres et de toute paine. Et mettre en pais et en repos et vraiment esleechier en le lumiere parmenable.Amen.
Orison. O clemens ac pijssime deus.
Ora.Domine ihesu xpriste exaudi preces nostras propter honorem omnium fidelium animarum.
Ora.Supplicamus tibi sancta trinitas sub nomine unitatis.
f.223v°Ora.Clementissime domine qui pro nostra miseria ab impiorum manibus.
Ora.Inclina domine aurem tuam.
f.224Incipit officium de sepultam defunctorum. Non intres in iudicium.
f.224v°R.Subvenite sancti dei occurrite angeli. (with music).
f.225Ora.Deus cui omnia vivunt et cui non pereunt moriendo corpora nostra->
f.225v°->preparasti diligentibus te.Per. R.Ante quam nascerer.(with music).
f.226Ora.Fac quesumus domine hanc cum servo tuo defuncto misericordiam.
f.226v°Ora.Inclina domine aurem. Ora.Deus qui inter apostolicos sacerdotes.
ã.Aperite michi portas. Ps.Confitemini. ã.Aperite.
f.227Ora. Pie recordationes affectu fratres karissimi.
ã.Ingredietur. Ora.Obsecrantes misericordiam tuam // omnipotens eterne deus qui hominem ->
f.227v°resuscitari iubeas.Per. Ps.Memento.
ã.Hec requies mea. Ora.Deus apud quem mortuorum // spiritus vivunt.
f.228ã.De terra. Ps.Dñe probasti me.
Ora.Fratres karissimi pro spiritu // cari nostri quem dominus de laqueo huius seculi.
f.228v° Ora.Deus vite dator et humanorum.
f.229Ora.Deus qui humanarum animarum eternus amator.
Ora.Deus qui iustis supplicationibus semper presto es.
f.229v°Ora.Temeritas quidem est domine ut homo hominem mortalis mortalem.
f.230Ora.Debitum humani corporis sepeliendi officium->
f.230v°->perfrui mereatur. Prestante domino nostro ihesu xpristo. Qui cum.
ã.Clementissime domine qui pro nostra miseria (with music).
f.231V. A porta inferi. Erue etc.
Ora.Satisfaciat tibi domine deus noster pro anima famuli tui fratris nostri sancte dei genitricis semperque virginis marie et beati dominici->
f.232->sanguine redimisti.
Ora.Deus cuius miseratione anime fidelium requiescunt. Ps.Miserere (with music).
f.232v° /Pater noster. V.In memoria eterna.
Ora. Absolve domine animam famuli tui.
Followed by the Dominican sequence of versicles to the Office of the Dead with music:
[1] V.Qvem visurus sum.
[2] V.Qui venturus es.
[3] V.Commissa mea.
[4] V.Anima mea turbata.
[5] V.Dirige domine.
[6] V.Amplius lava me.
[7] V.Deus in nomine tuo.
[8] V.Et non revertetur.
[9] V.Dies illa. V.Tremens. V.Quid ergo miserrimus. V.Nunc xpe te petimus. V.Creator omnium.
Explicit f.235.
f.235v°unwritten, ff.236-238 unwritten, f.238v° blank (not ruled)
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