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Psalter (Psalterium). [leaf from Ege medieval manuscripts]

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Title	Psalter (Psalterium). [leaf from Ege medieval manuscripts]
Date	1475
Date approximate?	yes
Creator	Ege, Otto F.
Subject headings	Manuscripts, Medieval -- Specimens Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens Illumination of books and manuscripts Manuscripts, Medieval
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This leaf from the Book of Psalms was written in the Benedictine monastery of St. Stephan in Würzburg and dated 1499 A.D. The book hand closely resembles the fine early gothic types called lettre de forme and used by Fust and Schoeffer in their superb Psalter issued in 1457. It is known that these printers also used this type to print the Canon of the mass which was frequently sold as a replacement for the soiled and worn out manuscript pages of that text. A close examination indicates that the scribe apparently tried to imitate printing type characters in many instances. In just the same way, the first printers had copied in their designs the current local book hand. The line of music giving the "free" melody of the psalm here retains the early XIIth century staff, with the C-line colored yellow and the F-line red. These note forms are frequently called Hufnagelschrift or horse-shoe nail notation because of their resemblanceto hobnails . Germany (Würzburg): Psalter. Late 15th C.
Type	Text
Original format	manuscripts
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	la
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts: Western Europe XII-XVI century Ege Descriptions
Folder	Leaf 42
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	Z6605.L3 E44_42
Digital master format	Image/tiff
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
OCLC number	882569272

Psalter (Psalterium). [leaf from Ege medieval manuscripts]

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