Description:
Datierte Handschrift
BSB-Provenienz: Augsburg, St Ulrich, Benediktiner
Altsignatur: Aug S Ulr 1
codicem scripsit Balthasar Kramer, in Recia Augusta Vindelica
natus, abbatizante huic monasterio Johanne de Giltlingen
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift
Psalter, Leidinger Nr 110, 10 historisierende Initialen, Augsburg,
1495 Extent:
192 Bl. Alternative Title:
Aug. S. Ulr. 1 Abstract:
Englische Version: According to its colophon, this very psalter was
completed by the scribe Balthasar Kramer in the days of Abbot
Johannes of Gilt Lingen (abbot from 1482 to 1496) for the
Benedictine Abbey of Saint Ulrich and Saint Afra in Augsburg on
April 11, 1495. The codex had been commissioned for the daily
psalms to be sung in the church choir. The initials and fleuronée
ornamentation are today ascribed to Conrad Wagner, a conventual of
Saint Ulrich and Afra. In addition, the Augsburg book painter Georg
Beck (1450-1512) was involved in the production, in charge,
together with his son, of the illuminations. Beck's son is
identified as the painter Leonhard Beck (circa 1480-1542), who has
been repeatedly verified as a miniaturist. The Psalter is preceded
by benedictions, absolutions, and a calendar. The text follows the
version of the Septuagint, the Greek Bible; only the psalm titles,
i.e., the biblical "headlines," quote mostly the translation of the
Psalter iuxta Hebraeos, being a direct translation by Saint Jerome
from Hebrew. The manuscript contains, for the purpose of the
monastic division of the psalter as well as for highlighted
canticles and sequences of hymns, a total of 35 historiated
initials with solid colored backgrounds and images from the life of
David, who was then regarded as the author of the psalms and to
whom many of the headlines relate. The iconographic peculiarities
of this manuscript include, in the context of Psalm 52, the
drinking fools, who are bowling and playing dice, as well as the
depiction of the Good Shepherd, the latter in connection with Psalm
79. The image of the monk and Death, found within the Office of the
Dead on leaf 177 recto, is remarkable. In the course of the
secularization of the monasteries in Bavaria the manuscript was
transferred, in January 1807, from Saint Ulrich and Afra in
Augsburg to the court and state library in Munich, now the Bavarian
State Library. // Autor: Karl-Georg Pfändtner Subjects:
223.2
Bible. Psalms
203.8
1495 Publication Statement:
[S.l.] 1495
