The Monte Cassino Digitorium

MC 434, Psalterium cum expositionibus

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(Newton, 1999, p. 379)

Shelfmark: MC 434 (Monte Cassino 434)

Author: (unknown)

Title: Psalterium cum expositionibus

Language(s): Latin

Country: Italy

City: Monte Cassino

Type: Codex

Dimensions: 295 x 220mm, 304 pages with 20 lines

Date: 1058-1071 CE

Holding Institution: Monte Cassino Library

Notes on script: Written in Cassinese script; upright and carefully spaced in open order, after the manner of Grimoald. The Old Angle obtains. The scribe was deliberately archaizing. Headings in orange-red Beneventan. Written in the time of Desiderius, before 1071.

Notes on decoration: Initial D with human face with wrinkled brow and staring eyes.