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- Record Id:
- 040-002088758
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002088757
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001490.0x000127
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063300472.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 35283
- Title:
- Psalter in Latin and Anglo-Norman
- Scope & Content:
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A bilingual Psalter, with canticles and liturgical texts; the Latin text is in the left column with a parallel Anglo-Norman French text in the right column; the translation is related to the Anglo-Norman version in the 'Oxford' Psalter: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 320 (see Short and others, 'Les Psautiers d'Oxford et St Albans' (2010)).
Contents:
ff. 1r-6v: Calendar.
ff. 7r-112v: The Book of Psalms, imperfect, with leaves missing after ff. 54, 62 and 85; a note on an inserted paper leaf after f. 83 states that the leaf that should follow is now f. 9 of Additional 35069.
ff. 113r-115v: Canticles and liturgical texts
ff. 116r-118v: Litanies in Latin.
Decoration:
Twelve initials in gold with penwork decoration in colours (two to a page on ff. 7r, 27v, 43r, 56v, 66r, 82v). Initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in the other colour. KL initials in blue in the calendar (ff. 1r-6r). Numerous initials in alternating red or blue at the beginning of verses. Rubrics in red. Line-fillers in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002088757
040-002088758 - Is part of:
- Add MS 35283-35298 : Belonged to the collection of MSS. formed by Bertram Ashburnham, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (ob. 1878), being comprised in…
Add MS 35283 : Psalter in Latin and Anglo-Norman - Hierarchy:
- 032-002088757[0001]/040-002088758
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- 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_100063300472.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 175 x 130 mm (text space: 135 x 95 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 117 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end).
Script: Gothic, written above top-line.
Binding: Post-1600. Blind-tooled brown leather; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern England.
Provenance:
? The Benedictine Priory of St John the Baptist and St Godric, Finchale, cell of Durham: contains an entry in the calendar at 10 May (f. 3r) in a late-13th century hand, 'Dedicatio ecclesie de Emyldon' (Embledon, near Alnwick, Northumbria); the calendar includes several saints venerated in the priory. The attribution to Finchale was rejected by Watson and Ker as it does not appear in the 1481 inventory of the library (Watson and Ker, Supplement (1987)), but Sharpe and Willoughby argued that the later obits added to the calendar (see below) suggest a connection with Finchale priory (Sharpe and Willoughby, Medieval Libraries (2015)).
? Ada of St Philibert (d. 1349) or Adam of St Philibert (d. 1352?): added obit of a member of this family on 20 June 'Obitus Ade de Sint Philibert' (f. 3v).
The Lee family: fourteen obits of this family in the calendar, including Richard Lee and his wife's obit: 'Obitus Ricardi de la Lee, in anno pestilenciali' (October, 1361) (f. 5v); 'le obbite Alice feme Ricard de Lee' (June, 1362) (f. 3v); added, various notes in margins throughout written by a 14th-century English cursive hand (e. g., ff. 15v; 17v; 20v).
Tristrem Lee (d. 17 July 1479): his obit in the calendar includes a dedication note (f. 4); bequeathed by him to Whalley Abbey.
The Cistercian Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Whalley, Lancashire: bequeathed by Tristrem Lee, his dedication with his obituary in the calendar 'Obitus Tristremi Lee anno domini millesimo ccccmo lxxix et ille dedit istud psalterium abbato [sic] et conventui beate Marie de Whalley' (f. 4r).
Christofer Smyth (16th century): 'Cristofer Smyth' his name inscribed (f. 1r) in a 16th-century hand.
Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (b.1797, d.1878), probably acquired by him between 1844 and 1877 and bequeathed to his son.
Bertram, 5th Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913): his bookplate with a date of May 1897 and a note, 'Ashburnam Appendix No 35' attached to the inside front cover; his sale, Sothebys, 1 May 1899, lot 8; bought by the British Museum with several other manuscripts for £593.3.6.
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- Publications:
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S. Berger, La Bible Française au Moyen Age: étude sur les plus anciennes versions de la Bible écrites en prose de langue d'Oïl (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1884), pp. 13-18.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum, 1901), pp. 229-30.
[C. H. Talbot], 'Cistercian Manuscripts in England', Collectanea Ordinis Cisterciensium Reformatorum, 14 (1952), 208-12, 264-77 (p. 272).
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 87.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by Andrew Watson and N.R. Ker (London: Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 37.
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), nos. 445, 457.
Ian Short, Maria Careri and Christine Ruby, 'Les Psautiers d'Oxford et de St Albans', Romania, 128 (2010), 29-44 [on the text].
G. Rector, 'The Romanz Psalter in England and Northern France in the Twelfth Century: Production, Mise-en-page, and Circulation', Journal of the Early Book Society, 13 (2010), 1-38.
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/5676/?search_term=Additional%2035283&page_size=500 [accessed 20 January 2017].
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) [accessed 20 January 2017].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
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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.