Rescued fragment from an original manuscript Spanish Choir (Ferial) Psalter on animal parchment. (180 x 115mm – 7 1/8 x 4 3/8’’)
Manuscript text beautifully executed by hand nearly five hundred years ago. Signed by the scribe “L. Ruiz” in one of the initials elsewhere in the parent manuscript.
Spain (Dominican Use), c. 1520.
Attractive calligraphy with four one-line illuminated initials alternating in red with violet internal & external penwork, & blue with red internal & external penwork.
A ferial psalter, also known as a choir psalter, contained items of the Divine Office that did not change from day to day, often including the invitatories, antiphons, canticles, short responsories, hymns, and litanies.
Presented in an archival 12 x 9'' mat
