Category: 12th-century

12th-Century Latin Psalter Leaf Italy, c. 1150 Early Gothic Script

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This rare and beautiful manuscript leaf is an authentic mid-12th-century psalter fragment, written in Latin on vellum in a transitional hand between Caroline minuscule and early Gothic textualis. Likely produced in Italy, the leaf features three red rubricated initials and clean, well-formed script, originally intended for use in monastic liturgy or private devotion. Recovered from [Continue]