The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220
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An elaborately illuminated English psalter containing an illustrated calendar, full-page illustrations of Old and New Testament scenes and Psalms from the Gallicanum version of the Vulgate text.
On the last page of the book is an inscription from c. 1200 giving instruction in Latin 'for the preparation and administration of an amulet for the cure of epilepsy: the amulet is to be sanctified at the altar at the Mass of the Holy Ghost and then suspended from the neck of someone afflicted with epilepsy or perhaps in danger of death' (Gardham 2007). There is a charm in Old English. Brown and Voigts (1980) describe this as 'an abracadabra function'.
There are also Latin prayers for a female supplicant (s. xiii), of whose word endings are later changed to masculine plural, and also considerable amount of marginalia in French throughout (Gardham 2007).
Incipit: (fol. 210v) + usy + begete + agala + lentotan + domnes + cibu + glaes +.+.
Date: c. 1200
Bibliography:
A transcription is available in Brown and Voigts 1980
Form: Codex
Support: Parchment, arranged HHFF.
Extent:
290 mm x 186 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
216 mm x 114 mm (dimensions of majority of text - size of written space)
20 mm x 35 mm (dimensions of OE text - size of written space)
Foliation and/or Pagination: Partial, modern foliation in pencil. Foliation in modern pen in the middle of the bottom margin of the last folio of each quire.
Layout description:
Ruling is by plummet for single columns of 21 lines, apart from the Kalendar which is in 35 lines. The ruling lines are faint.
Lavishly decorated throughout. The calendar is illustrated by historiated 'KL's, the zodiac signs, and the saints' days are listed in coloured inks. After the calendar are thirteen full-page minatures 'intended to open the surface of the psalms for further enquiry, even revelation' (Greenland 1997). The Psalms each begin with an historiated or decorated initial, and gilt letters begin every verse (see Gardham 2007 for more detail and images, and University of Glasgow Manuscripts Catalogue for a complete list of illuminations).
s. xvii. Millboards, covered crimson morocco, richly gilt-tooled inside margins, edges and sides, panelled back. Entitled 'PSALTERIUM | UETUS | IN MEMBRANIS'.
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