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at an auction of rare books and manuscripts from the library of the
Marquess de Lothian on 27 January 1932, purchased by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach. The manuscript was exhibited once by the New York public library before rebinding and conservation efforts took place. In 2016, twenty pages of the Tickhill
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The
Tickhill Psalter has nineteen quires total, which are folded into eight folio's each. Each folio contains two columns of text per page, with space for thirty lines of text per page. The manuscript is made of vellum, except for the eight folios of parchment surrounding the manuscript, added at a
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One tool used to help pin down more exact historical context for this object is heraldry. There are around twenty-eight known completed shields of actual feudal families woven into the marginal decorations throughout the
Psalter. Because the personal shield of a person who was already passed would
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is unknown. There are twelve total canticles. The
Canticles shows a somewhat incomplete text, there are a few missing pre-canticle prayers with space for them still blank, starting around the eighth canticle. The spaces for post-canticle commentaries after are also left blank after canticle nine.
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Worksop, nine miles from the village of Tickhill. He was instated as Prior in November 1303, and was removed from office on 6 March 1314 for financial misconduct, due in part to the costs associated with producing a script of this level, leaving the manuscript unfinished in different
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It is difficult to determine the exact time or date this manuscript was created, but there are some clues that give an approximate time frame. John de
Tickhill first came into power at the Worksop Priory during the year 1303, which is when he would have been able to start production on this
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This
Psalter contains three sections, each written and illuminated in various stages of completion. The sections are divided into a preface by Peter Lombard, the Psalms, and the Twelve Canticles including the Litany of Saints and the Nine Collects.
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Psalter is unique because the chief illuminator/ scribe's name and area of origin for the manuscript is known, unlike most other English Gothic illuminations, because of an Inscription written on the first folio.
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Johannis Tikyll sacre pagine Bacallarii et quondam prioris monasterii de Wyrkesopp qui istum librum propriis manibus scripsit necnon deauravit, cuius anima requiescat in pace. Amen"
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not be depicted on the pages where heraldry symbolism is used in decoration, the Psalter was created before the dates of death for those seen referenced to in the decoration. Folio 51 has the shields o
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During the eighteenth century, the Psalter was rebound by Scott of Edinburgh, who rebound many of the books in the Lothian Library. While being rebound, the margins had been cut down to
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Because of these factors, it is known that the decoration of the psalter was started sometime after Tickhill became Priory in 1304, and before his removal from the position in 1314.
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After the Tree of Jesse, the psalms are then divided into eight parts, with seven full page initial illumination between each section. The Initials contain scenes from the life of
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The Psalter is sometimes referred to as the Tikyll Psalter or Tickytt Psalter, due to a spelling issue on the title bindings that were redone under the Library of Lothian.
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Psalter were digitized and made publicly available through their online collections. The Psalter is a part of the Spencer Collection under the title "Psalterium".
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