ID: 700008680 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008680	Record Type: Movable Work
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Psalter (illuminated manuscript; Unknown German (German Illuminator); around 1240-1250)

Note: 192 folios + 1 flyleaf, 6 full-page miniatures, 11 historiated initials, 3 decorated initials, 12 decorated calendar pages, 1 page of display capitals on a decorated background. A psalter consists of all 150 psalms of the Bible, supplemented by other texts, such as a calendar of Church feasts and Old Testament Canticles. This psalter was made in the mid-1200s in Würzburg, then a flourishing center for manuscript illumination. The book opens with calendar pages featuring one of the twelve minor prophets from the Old Testament for each month. Following this preface the psalms appear, organized into ten sections in order to facilitate their recitation during the course of the week's devotions. Full-page miniatures including both Old and New Testament subjects appear before Psalm 1, Psalm 51, and Psalm 101. The illuminator introduced the seven remaining sections with large decorated or inhabited initials, the latter of which are particularly inventive. Illuminations from the Würzburg school are monumental compositions characterized by bright, highly saturated colors, highly burnished gold-leaf backgrounds, and dramatic, focused narratives.

Titles:

Psalter (preferred,C,U,English,U,U)

Ms. Ludwig VIII 2 (C,U,MD,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

illuminated manuscript [300265483] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by conditions of production>, manuscripts (documents))

psalter (book) [300026477]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, religious texts)

book [300028051]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: around 1240-1250

Creator Display:

Unknown German (German Illuminator) [preferred,JPGM]

unknown German (German cultural designation) Qualifier: undetermined Extent: undetermined [500125236]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Würzburg [7004335] Bavaria (state), Germany (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 83.MK.93; Ms. Ludwig VIII 2

Display Materials: tempera colors, gold leaf, and silver leaf on parchment bound between wood boards covered with brown calf

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gold leaf [300264831]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

	silver leaf [300265199]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

	wood board [300162666]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, <wood by product>)

	calf (leather) [300227525]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material, leather, <leather by origin>)

Dimensions: leaves: 22.7 x 15.7 cm (8 15/16 x 6 3/16 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Term Not Found
	..... AAT Candidate

Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: Inscribed first flyeaf, upper center, in pen, "Psalteriu[m], cantica feriaru[m], Cursi Beatae M. Virgin[i]s et opg(?) defu[n]ctoru[m]". Inscribed fol. 192v, on last ruled line, in pen, "V.IV.1"

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Psalter	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Ms. Ludwig VIII 2	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP,JPGM]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)