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- Record Id:
- 040-002058176
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002058172
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001159.0x00024e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056001508.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 38819
- Title:
- Psalter
- Scope & Content:
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Contents: Psalter, use of York.
ff. 1r-6v: An Augustinian Calendar, with some Cistercian additions.
ff. 7r-135v: The Book of Psalms, imperfect, some Psalms are lacking (lacking Psalms 1:1-5; 9:3-15; 10:4; 11:7; 31:8; 33:7; 34:16; 36:4; 45:1; 47:13; 77:17-33; 91:1; 93:12; 101:11; 105:28; 112:4; 118:80; 120; 146:10 to Psalm 150), beginning: 'Quoniam novit Dominus viam iustorum et iter impiorum peribit', ending: 'et vias peccatorum disperdet'.
Decoration:
Large 'KL' initials in red, green, blue and yellow with penwork decoration (ff. 1r-6v). Large initials in colours and gold, some overpainted, some with zoomorphic features (ff. 29v, 55v) for Psalms 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 101 and 109 (ff. 31, 39v, 55, 55v, 790, 87v, 103, 105, 112); Psalm 1 is lacking. Large and small initials in frames with penwork decoration in gold, blue, red and green. Display script. Some Rubrics in red or green in the calendar. Small initials in red, green or blue. Excised initials (ff. 91, 92, 121). Line fillers in green and red throughout. A human figure in the lower margin (f. 61r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002058172
040-002058176 - Is part of:
- Add MS 38816-38824 : Dunn Manuscripts
Add MS 38819 : Psalter - Hierarchy:
- 032-002058172[0004]/040-002058176
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 38816-38824
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056001508.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 185 x 145 mm (text space: 140 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 135 (+ 2 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaves reinforced with paper at the beginning + 2 at the end); ff. 1r-6v have been mounted on paper guards.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Bibliophile binding (1903) by Douglas Bennett Cockerell (b. 1870, d. 1945).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
The Augustinian abbey of Bourne (diocese of Lincoln), founded in 1138: indicated by obits added to the Kalendar in a 13th-century hand; these include Henry, abbot of Bourne ('Henricus abbas de Brunne'), on f. 2r; other obits linked to the diocese of Lincoln: Hugh of Lincoln (f. 6r), Alicia de Gednee (Gedney) (f. 1r); perhaps also highlighted the nine lections in the added feasts of St William of York and Thomas of Hereford (ff. 3v; 5v) (see also Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964), p. 11).
An unknown monastery of the Cistercian Order: indicated by 15th-century additions to the Kalendar: a feast on 20 May 'Commemoratio omnium personarum regularium ordinis' (f. 3r); the feast of St Bernard of Clairvaux (f. 4v) and Robert of Molesme (f. 2v) (see Talbot, 'Cistercian manuscripts in England' (1952)).
George Dunn (b. 1856, d. 1912), bibliophile and paleographer of Woolley Hall, Berkshire: his bookplate (inside upper cover); the date of 1901 stamped on the lower inside cover may have been by him. his sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 February, 1913, lot 1523; purchased by the British Museum.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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C. H. Talbot, 'Cistercian Manuscripts in England', Collectanea Ordinis Cisterciensium Reformatorum, 14 (1952), 208-12, 264-77 (p. 273).
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1911-1915 (London: The British Museum, 1969), pp. 255-56.
Andrew Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London: The British Library, 1979), I, no.393.
Neil Ripley Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1941), p. 11.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by Andrew Watson and N.R. Ker (London: Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 4.
Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Scribes, Scripts and Readers: Studies in the Communication, Presentation and Dissemination of Medieval Texts (London: Hambledon Press, 1991), p. 198.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.