Lectionary

Text: The manuscript is a fragment from a conventual psalter with psalms ordered according to the Divine Office and accompanied by antiphons, responses and rubrics for particular hours or nocturns. They are prefaced by invitatories, and hymns for matins on ff.7-8 (which were originally ff.1-2). There are 15 lines of text on each page.

Decoration: On f.1r, the opening psalm 'Beatus vir' is introduced by an historiated initial showing David at prayer in a landscape. The remaining letters of the word 'Beatus' have decorative treatment set against a gold panel. In the centre of the lower margin of f.1r is a circle with the monogram YHS. The volume also features five decorated initials three to four lines high introducing hymns and psalter divisions on 7v, 17r, 24r, 27v and 29r. The initials are set on gold square or rectangular grounds, and are coloured blue, mauve, green and red with white tracery and black and white outlines and shading. Simple one-line red and blue versal initials occur alternately throughout the text. Black initials are often quite elaborately developed and pen-flourished.

Script: 15th century Italian liturgical gothic in black ink with red rubrics.

Binding: Modern brown buckram folder.

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Psalter (fragment), Ferrara?, late 15th century.

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