Royal MS 2 F VIII

PSALTER, in Latin, of S. Jerome's Gallican version; with commentary [by Petrus Lombardus]. See description Of 2 E. ii, another (and finer) copy of the same work. Additional notes have been inserted in the margin of many pages with a pencil or plummet. At the end are the lines: (Ter quinquagenos cantat David ordine psalmos Versus bis mille sex centum sex canit ille'. Vellum ff. 190. 13.1/2 in. x 9.1/4 in. Late XIII cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves, with catcchwords, not numbered. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'inmunitatem'. Initials flourished in red and blue. On the first fly-leaf (f. 1 b) are written old English verses (late 13th cent.) in honour of the Virgin and our Lord, beg. 'In hyre ys al my lyf ylong[e] of wam ic wolle synge', The other fly-leaves (ff. 2, 3, 189 b, 190) have theological notes. Belonged to St. Albans Abbey: 'Hunc librum dedit frater Willelmus Parys deo et eccl sancti Albani, quem qui alienauerit uel titulum deleuerit anathema sit. Amen' (f. 5). On the strength of this note the commentary

has been attributed (f. 5), in a 17th cent. hand, to William Paris, ' archid[iaconus] '; and presumably this is the work which Bale (Script. Brit. Cat., part 2, P. 95, Index Brit. Script., ed. Poole, P. 143) states that he saw in the library of King Edward VI. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 1119.' Probably appears in cat. of 1666, ff. 1 b, 16, 17,or 17 b,and among the various annotated Psalters in CMA.