[Psalterium cum canticis].

Accession number: 
PML 73
Uniform title: 
Bible. Psalms. Latin. 1490.
Published: 
[Bamberg] : [Johann Sensenschmidt and Heinrich Petzensteiner], [approximately 1490]
Description: 
XCVIII leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Printed in Sensenschmidt and Petzensteiner's types 10:196G (larger missal type) and 11:156G (smaller missal type).
GW dates to 1485; BSB-Ink to ca. 1483.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-5¹⁰·⁸ 6-8¹⁰ 9⁶ 10-11⁸]: 98 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Printed foliation.
There are two issues of the psalter: ISTC ip01061000 for use in the diocese of Regensburg and ISTC ip01049417 for general use with the specific passages pertaining to Regensburg use (predominantly printed in smaller missal type 11:156G) removed.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 20.6 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/4.7, replaced in manuscript by the rubricator Nicholas Moelnheim.

Binding: 
16th-century uncovered beech boards (29.7 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports, with new leather spine added by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. 2 clasps, wanting. Ink inscription on top board, illegible.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Watermark: folio IV. Tall crown.
Watermark: folio LXII. Bunch of grapes.
Watermark: folio LXXV. Sword and crown.
Watermark: folio LXXVII. Bull's head with vertical bar and cross.
Watermark: folio LXXXIX. Bull's head with cross on vertical stem. Variant 3) tall horns, large eyes, no nostrils
Watermark: folio VIII. Tall cross on church or mounts.
Watermark: folio XLIIII. Bull's head with cross. Variant 2) wide horns, crossing chain lines and "X" on stick.
Watermark: folio XVII. Balance in a circle surmounted by Maltese cross.
Watermark: folio XXI. Bull's head. Variant 2) small head with eyes, nostrils with Tau above.
Watermark: folio XXV. Bunch of grapes, open stem.
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards (some with yellow highlights) and paragraph marks by Nicholas Moelnheim, 29 August 1545 (leaf [11]/7v): "Anno d[omi]ni 1545 elucidatum est psalteriu[m] istud per me fratrem Nicolaum Moelnheim ord[ine] pred[icatorum] frankford[ense] conve[n]t[us] in honorem et laudem summe et individue trinitatis. Sub priorissa Katherine Schweinfordere [i.e. Schweinfurt?] in festo de collationis Johannes Batiste [i.e., 29 August] feliciter consumatu[m] laus deo." Annotations: no notations within text.

Provenance: 
Frankfurt am Main, St. Trinitas, Dominicans, 1545 (rubricator's inscription leaf [11]/7v, dated [1]/10v, and inscribed "M:E:R: 1545" [10]/6r); Matthias Jacob Adam Steiner (1740-1796), Protestant priest at St. Ulrich in Augsburg; his sales, 16 October 1797 and 25 Nov. 1798, postponed till 27 March 1799; Georg Wilhelm Zapf (1747-1810), purchased at Steiner sale, 1799 (see his Bibliographische Nachtrichten); shelf mark, unidentified (maybe Steiner or Rottenbuch): Collect. Bibl. pag. 1579 (front pastedown); Rottenbuch (Bavaria), Augustinians, donated by Zapf, 1800 (note on second fly leaf recto), monastery dissolved and library sent to Munich, 1803; Munich, Court Library, "Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis" stamp, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); Edward Hailstone (1818-1890), round leather armorial bookplate (front pastedown); his sales, Sotheby's, 4 Feb. and 23 April 1891; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate and price code: s/-/- + (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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