Psalter

"8vo (18 x 13.8 cm, 7.125 x 5.25"). [1] f. Leaf from a 13th-century liturgical psalter, for the Diocese of Rome: The text begins with the last words of Psalm 35; then follow the antiphon "Expugna i[m]pugnantes me" for that psalm, the incipit "Revela" (for the antiphon "Revela Domino viam tuam" that accompanies Psalms 36–37 as the 11th and 12th psalms for matins on Monday in the Roman office), and the complete text for Psalm 36.nnAfterwards, on the verso, is the beginning of Psalm 37. The text is not that of the Gallican (or Vulgate) psalter, the one in general use in the West, but rather the text of the old Roman psalter, which was peculiar to the diocese of Rome. Such Roman psalters are, as might be expected, rarer than Gallican ones.nnThe text is in two columns of 30 lines; it is faintly ruled with a dry stylus, the first line of text being above the top rule (apparently—the ruling is very faint). There is 1 two-line blue initial on the recto, with pen tracery in red running along half the page of text. On the verso is a two-line initial in red, with a pen flourish in purple running up half the page of text. There are also 20 one line red initials—nine on the recto, and eleven on the verso—and 20 one-line blue initials—nine on the recto and eleven on the verso. The red ink is the orange-red usually encountered in Italian manuscripts. There is a faint catchword in the lower margin of the verso.nnLight soiling, lower and inner edge tattered. Text intact, though the ink from some of the letters, including some of the blue initials, has flaked off, especially lower down on the verso, leaving only a faint impression of some letters. Possibly recovered from a binding. Clever matting could obscure damage, were that desired.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439492/datastream/PDF/view