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Harley MS 863 ff 8-123v
- Record Id:
- 041-003318534
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046692
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100034334255.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060306568.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 863 ff 8-123v
- Title:
- Psalter, with canticles, litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
This Psalter has been identified in other manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072).
ff. 8r-108v: The Gallican version of the Psalms with Canticles. A continuous interlinear Old English gloss to the Canticle 'Quicumque vult' (ff. 107r-v).
ff. 108v-111v: Litany for the use of Exeter.
ff. 111v-123v: Prayers followed by offices with neumed response.
Decoration:
Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with a 12th-century added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046692
041-003318534 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 863 : Psalter ('The Leofric Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Harley MS 863 ff 8-123v : Psalter, with canticles, litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0863]/040-002046692[0002]/041-003318534
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- Part of Harley MS 863
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1050
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 300 x 230 mm (text space 240 x 135 mm).
Script: Caroline minuscule and English vernacular minuscule.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, S. W. (Exeter).
Provenance:
The cathedral church of St Peter, Exeter: evidence of the script and litany; perhaps made for Leofric, bishop (1046-1072) and given by him to the cathedral, see Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Litanies of the Saints (1991) no. 23. The Exeter litany features the earliest attestation of the cult of Pope Leo IX and St Bardo, bishop of Mainz (see Bishop, Liturgica Historica (1918) pp. 406-08). Although the calendar was added more than a century after the 11th-century Psalter was written, the additions to the calendar show that the manuscript was still at Exeter, and almost certainly still at the cathedral.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)