Research Catalog

Title

Tickhill Psalter.

Author

Catholic Church.

Publication

Nottinghamshire, England, approximately 1314.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tickhill, John
• New York Public Libary. Manuscript. Spencer Coll. MS 26.

Description

155 leaves, bound : vellum, ink, manuscript, illuminations; 327 x 221 mm

Alternative Title

Psalter.

Subjects

• Psalters > Texts > Early works to 1800
• Illuminated initials (layout features)
• illuminated manuscripts
• vellum (parchment)
• Morocco bindinfs (Binding) > England > 14 century
• Manuscripts > England > 14th century
• Catholic Church Liturgy > Texts
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > New York (State) > New York
• Illumination of books and manuscripts
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > England

Genre/Form

• Manuscripts – England – 14th century.
• Morocco bindinfs (Binding) – England – 14 century.
• vellum (parchment)
• illuminated manuscripts.
• Illuminated initials (layout features)

Note

• No calendar; text does include with preface to the psalms by Peter Lombard, the Twelve Canticles, the Litany of the Saints and Nine Collects.
• On f. 1, s. XV attribution of copying & gilding to John Tickhill, prior of Worksop (1303-14); leaves with major decoration (f. 6v, and the psalter divisions) are separate singletons or glued-in patches. Several artists. Last quire in a different hand.
• The foliation only goes to f. 154; it skips f. 2 and is thereafter incorrect.
• Layout: 30 lines per page (38 on ff. 3-6) in two columns, ruled in blackish-brown ink.
• Decoration: Historiated initials, bas-de-page scenes, grotesques, animals and human faces; a second artist from f. 51 on. Initials of various sizes and types of decoration, border decoration, rubrics, penwork, etc. Decorations are done in many colors, and much gold leaf is used. Decorations were not completed: those later in the manuscript are missing text or coloring.
• Collation: quire I has 2 folios, which were probably added in the fifteenth century. The remaining quires, II-XX, have eight folios each. Prickings visible.
• Scribe: John Tickhill
• Script: Littera prescissa.
• Origin: Written at the Augustinian Priory of Worksop in Nottinghamshire, archdiocese of York.
• Twenty eight early coats of arms on various pages.

Access (note)

• Restricted use.

Indexed In (note)

• The Splendor of the Word. (ed.) J. G. Alexander, J. H. Marrow, L. F. Sandler (NYPL / Harvey Miller, 2005)
• Ricci, S de. Medieval and Renaissance mss.

Cite As (note)

• NYPL. Spencer Collection MS. 26.

Language (note)

• In Latin.

Provenance (note)

• From William Kerr (d. 1767), 3rd Marquess of Lothian and descendents; American Art Association, 1932, to A. S. W. Rosenbach.

Binding (note)

• England, Green morocco, by Scott of Edinburgh, ca. 1790.

Source of Description (note)

• Part of the description used is from Digital Scriptorium 1.0

Call Number

Spencer Coll. MS. 26

OCLC

1335038195

Author

Catholic Church.

Title

Tickhill Psalter.

Imprint

Nottinghamshire, England, approximately 1314.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Access

Restricted use. Requires permission for access.

Indexed In:

The Splendor of the Word. (ed.) J. G. Alexander, J. H. Marrow, L. F. Sandler (NYPL / Harvey Miller, 2005), n. 41.

Ricci, S de. Medieval and Renaissance mss., p. 1340, no. 26.

Cite As:

NYPL. Spencer Collection MS. 26.

Language

In Latin.

Binding

England, Green morocco, by Scott of Edinburgh, ca. 1790.

Provenance

From William Kerr (d. 1767), 3rd Marquess of Lothian and descendents; American Art Association, 1932, to A. S. W. Rosenbach.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Place of Publication

England Nottinghamshire.

Added Author

Tickhill, John, scribe.

New York Public Libary. Manuscript. Spencer Coll. MS 26.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. MS. 26