Detail View: Medieval Collection:
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Image Number:
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Bookreader Latin MS 116
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Reference Number:
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Latin MS 116
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Parent Work Title:
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Psalter of St. Maximin
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Date Created:
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9th century
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Description:
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Manuscript of the 'Psalter of St. Maximin'. The binding is brown leather with blind and gold tooling and dates from the 14th century. The text is written in double columns of 29-30 lines to a page. Written in the ninth century, in a fine clear, Carolingian minuscule, almost upright. Lines ruled with dry point. In the cover is the ticket of the Museum of Bollandianum Bruxellis. The manuscript has examples of the continental-Celtic style of decoration. The rosettes and interlacing of the Celtic school are combined with acanthus–leaf, and foliage. The elements of the colour scheme are red, purple, black, green and yellow.
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Language Code:
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lat
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Subject:
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Religion
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Subject:
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Christianity
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Technique Used:
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Blind-tooling
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Technique Used:
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Gold tooling
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Support:
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Leather
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Support:
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Vellum
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Item Height:
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420 mm
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Item Width:
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325 mm
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Current Repository:
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John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Bibliotheca Bollandiana Bruxellensis
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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James, M.R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (Munich, 1980)
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2011-10-31
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2011-12
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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