farfel_n03_083_172

172
Sept. 1983
950F=$119.50 Rossignol
Quai St. Michel. Paris
Psalter [crossed out] Book of Hours [end crossed out] - Italy (Naples?) 1460-70.
Manuscript leaf - written on velium - fine humanistic
minuscules. Alternating initials in blue + burnished
gold. Decorative line fillers in red, blue + gold.
5 3/8 x 7 15/16". 27 lines to the page. Latin.

versets - the decorative strips painted to fill in a short line of text.

Psalm 34(35) Judica, Domime.
Feb '92 SF Book Fair - leaf from same volume identified by "Les #26
Enluminures", Paris, as a Breviary - Amiens - 1475-85 (27 lines)
Divine Office - 150 psalms
1-108 were divided into 7 groups for recitation at Matins
each day + the remaining psalms were recited during the
weeks vesper services.
15 Gradual Psalms - 120-134.

Jerome prepared 3 versions of the Book of Psalms which
are known as the Roman, Gallican + Hebrew Psalters respectively
- The manner of comparing different versions of the same text
goes back at least to the 3rd C. when Origen (185-254)
Produced an ed. of the O.T known as the Hexapla in which
6 versions of the text are produced side by side
- The O.T. Psalms form the core of the Divine Office.
In the 7th C, the psalms were divided into groups to
be recited at the Matins + Vesper services.
-Paul's emphasis on faith as the key to Salvation corresponded
to the tenants of reform theologians (Reformation)

The psalter was popular in the Middle Ages because
it was used in private devotion - with this book
the reader could praise the Lord + beg His forgiveness.