Psalter, canticles, and additional prayers
Ms. psalter, calendar for Amiens, written and illuminated in Amiens, France, ca. 1300-1320.
Decoration: 9 historiated initials, 2 large decorated initials, many pages entirely framed with bar border in pink and blue and gold leaf studded with birds perched on leaf clusters. Elaborately decorated catchwords in green wash and brown ink filigree.
Subjects of the 9 historiated initials are as follows: 1. fol. 7r: Beatus vir initial -- 2. fol. 38r: Anointing of David -- 3. fol. 58v: David with hand to mouth -- 4. fol. 77r: Crowned warrior about to cut off cleric's head with sword -- 5. fol. 78r: The fool with large white bread, club, faced by naked winged devil -- 6. fol. 97v: David in canoe, sinking -- 7. fol. 121v: David playing bells -- 8. fol. 143v: 3 tonsured clerics in front of bookstand, singing from scroll; inscribed on it: Domine miserere mei -- 9. fol. 167r: God the Father, God the Son seated, both with cross-haloes, but no Dove.
Collation: Quires of 8, some with signature marks i-iiii, 5th folio +, on lower corner of rectos.