Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 628

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 628
    • CCCC MS 628
    • MS 628
    • Parker Library MS 628
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1240
  • Decoration :
    • Illuminated historiated and ornamental initials and line endings. The style of all these can be compared with Parisian illumination of the mid thirteenth century as noted by C. de Hamel in The Parker Chronicle, 3, 2007, p. 13. The figure style can be compared with the later Bibles moralisées of the 1240s.
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • Single column, 20 lines per page
  • Dimensions :
    • 90 x 121
  • Codicological details :
    • ff. i-ii + 1-198 + iii-iv

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  • Résumé : The Revd. William Favell, an old member of the college (matric. 1922), gave this illuminated French Psalter, CCCC MS 628, to Corpus Christi College in 1976. It was probably made in Paris c. 1240, certainly after 1234 because St Dominic, canonised in that year, is in the Litany. At the liturgical divisions of the Psalter there are eight fine full-page historiated initials. The figure style derives out of that of the artists of the Bibles moralisées made for the French royal family in the period c. 1220-40.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    1r-176v - Psalter

    Note : The psalms of the liturgical divisions have large full-page historiated initials with gold grounds. The lesser psalms have four line fully illuminated initials with coils and leaves on a gold ground, and in some cases short illuminated extensions into the border. There are line endings with ornamental patterns in gold, blue and red

    Note : (1r) Psalm 1. David harping; David beheading Goliath

    Note : (28r) Psalm 26. Christ crowning David

    Note : (45v) Psalm 38. Christ standing in discussion with David

    Note : (62r) Psalm 52. The fool, holding a bauble and biting on a disc, stands before David

    Note : (79r) Psalm 68. Christ blessing holding an orb; David, with arms extended, in the water. This initial is very damaged and rubbed

    Note : (98r) Psalm 80. David playing bells

    Note : (117r) Psalm 97. Two clerics in copes standing at a lectern

    Note : (137r) Psalm 109. God the Father seated with the Son, with the Holy Ghost between them

    Note : (176v) Psalm 150. A grotesque with a helmet holding a shield with a blason, yet to be identified, or a chevron gules between two roundels and a cross sable


    176v-193v - Canticles, Gloria and Credo

    Note : (176v) Confitebor. Six line ornamental initial with coils and leaves on a gold ground. The other canticles have four line initials of similar type

    Note : (192v) Gloria. Four line ornamental initial

    Note : (193r) Credo. Four line ornamental initial


    194r-197v - Litany

    Note : Saints characteristic of Paris are Denis among the martyrs, Germanus and Marcellus among the confessors, and Genevieve among the virgins. The inclusion of Dominic among the confessors suggests a date after 1234 when he was canonised

    Note : (194r) Kyrie. Four line ornamental initial

    Note : (197r) Litany Collects. Four line ornamental initials


    197v-198r - Prayers

    Note : Both have four line ornamental initials

    incipit : (197v) Protector vite sperantium

    incipit : Pietate quaesumus Domine

    Note : 198v blank

Provenance

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  • Presented to the College by the Rev. William Favell (Old Member, matriculated 1922) of Hove, Sussex, in April 1976, as recorded in a pencil note on f. 1r. A letter is also kept with the manuscript giving further information. He had inherited it from the estate of his cousin, Richard Vernon Favell, sheriff of Cornwall, who died in 1936. The Psalter appeared in the Sotheby sale 14th July 1937, lot 616, but seems to have been withdrawn and given to a member of the family.

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