Contents: f. 1r: Three extracts with the rubric 'Laus sancti Augustini super psalterium', beginning 'Canticum psalmorum animas decorat', 'Canticum psalmorum carmen electum', and 'In psalterio solo'. ff. 1r-4r: Easter tables for the 532 years from 1128-1659, with an explanation beginning, 'In...
A Selection of Psalms, Litanies and Prayers in Latin, commissioned by Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, the fourth son of Henry IV (1391-1447). The contents are: ff. 1r-6v, Calendar, of Sarum use, with red-letter feasts of SS. Wulstan, David, Chad, Edward king and martyr., Cuthbert (and transl.), Ri...
PSALTER, in Latin, preceded by a Calendar and followed by the Canticles, Te Deum, Athanasian Creed, Litany, and a number of prayers, two of which (ff. 176 b, 179) refer to 'abbatissa nostra'. The Calendar includes :- Jan. 3. Genovefa. " 25. Prejectus (Clermont). Mar. 1. Albinus (Angers). Apr. ...
From Warner and Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections (1921), I, p. 39: 'PSALTER, in Latin, with a Calendar, the Canticles, Te Deum, Athanasian Creed and Litany. Ps. 9:20-10:11, omitted in error, are supplied by a later hand on an inserted leaf (f. 22)...
TROPER and Gradual for St. Albans Abbey, in Latin. Some account of the MS. is given by Rev. W. H. Frere in his Winchester Troper (Hen. Bradshaw SOC., 1894), PP. xxxi, 132-139. The notation is Guidonian, on a four-line stave, except at ff. 107 b, 108, where there are some neums. Contents:- 1. F...
PSALTER and ten Canticles, in Latin, calligraphically written by the Florentine Petruccio Ubaldini, long resident in England (see Dict. Nat., Biog.), for Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, For other specimens of his work see below, 14 A. i, &c. The Psalter is preceded by two illuminated pages ...
The main text of the this manuscript consists of a Psalter, in the Roman version, with 12 canticles and some Old English glosses in the same hand as the manuscript. Between the late 10th and mid-11th century, further prayers, proverbs, and notes on topics ranging from Christ's incarnation to the...
PSALTER, in Latin, with Canticles (f. 141), Te Deum (f. 148 b), Athanasian Creed (f. 151), and Litany (f. I52 b); preceded by a St. Albans Calendar (f. 2), and by a series of sixteen tinted drawings of Gospel history, &c. (ff. 8-12 b). The following entries (in gold, where not otherwise note...
Psalter, in Latin, with preceding Old Testament cycle and calendar, followed by Canticles, Litanies, and prayers. Contents: ff. 1r-66v: Cycle of 223 tinted drawings illustrating Old Testament scenes, from the Fall of Lucifer and the Creation to the Death of Solomon, with accompanying Anglo-Nor...
Cycle of 223 tinted drawings, mostly two per page, illustrating Old Testament scenes from the Fall of Lucifer and the Creation to the Death of Solomon, with accompanying Anglo-Norman explanatory verses. Beginning, 'Coment lucifer chayit de ciel e devient diable e grant multitudo des angeles oues...