Beschreibung:

Psalter with canticles, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [France, third quarter of the thirteenth century] 129 leaves, 145mm. by 115mm., wanting first leaf and single leaves after fols.22, 31, 43, 8 leaves after fol.15 and 3 leaves after fol.105, else apparently complete, single column, 18-19 lines in black ink in three early gothic hands, rubrics in red, one-line initials in blue or gold, 2-line initials in gold on blue and pink grounds heightened with white penwork (many rubbed with losses to gold), initials cut away from fols.55, 68, 115, 118 and 119, much soiled through use with flaking away of ink in upper half of book, first page much discoloured, blackening to outer edges and losses of corners (perhaps once in a fire), else fair condition, modern vellum over wooden boards