MS. Auct. D. 2. 1
Summary Catalogue no.: 2312
Contents
An additional quire of four leaves (fols. 2-6). This treatise could not be entirely written on the four added leaves and so overflowed on to fol. 6, but left room for a title on fol. 6v, now partially erased, which ran 'Incipit liber Psalmorum secundum glosulam Clementis Lantoniensis ecclesie prioris'.
'Liber Psalmorum vel ymnorum vel soliloquiorum prophete de Christo' (a title on fol. 8r) preceded by a prologue on fol. 7 (beg. 'Christus integer, caput cum membris, est materia huius libri') and a preface to the 1st Psalm, on fol. 8r. The Psalter follows with many glosses, and a preface and 'summa' to each psalm: the summa of Ps. 45 (= 44, Eructavit cor meum) is in verse.
Physical Description
Decoration
There are fine illuminated capitals on fols. 2, 8v, 42v, 59v, 80 (with three figures), 81, 102, 124v, 145, 147v (with figure), 164v, 189. Pächt and Alexander iii. 226, pl. XXII:
Fine historiated initials.
Fine other initials.
Binding
Stamped leather, Oxford, about 1605.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Lanthony (Secunda), Gloucestershire, Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin and St John the Baptist: Numbering of psalms at foot of pages in usual style. (MLGB3: evidence from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe).
On fol. 223v is 'Pertinet domino Robert Toff' (late 15th cent.) and written a little later) 'Orate', 'Orate pro anima domini Roberti Toff'.
Acquired by the Library in or before 1602.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (4 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-09: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.