The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

Paris, Bibliothéque Nationale, Lat. 8824

Psalter

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Psalter with Old English translation in the second column, next to the Latin text. One hand, origin unknown, but Ker (1957, p. 440) notes: it 'belonged to Jean, duc de Berry (1340-1416)'.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 1-175

   Title (A.5): The Paris Psalter

   Bibliography:

   Bright and Ramsay 1907, 123

   Grein and Wülcker 1881-98, iii. 332

   Ker 1957, pp. 440-41

   Krapp 1932, 3

   Tanger 1883, 125

   Thorpe 1835

   Wormald 1952, no. 55

Administration Information:

Described by Owen Roberson with reference to published scholarship (August 2010).

Bibliography:

Bright, James Wilson, and R. L. Ramsay, eds, The West Saxon Psalms, Belles Lettres, 367 (1907)

Grein, C. W. M., and R. P. Wülker, Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie, 3 vols (Goettingen: C. H. Wigand, 1881-98)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 367

Krapp, George Philip, The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 5 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1932)

Tanger, G., 'Collation des Pariser Altenglischen Psalters mit Thorpe's Ausgabe', Anglia, vi, no. 125 (1883), 367

Thorpe, B., Libri Psalmorum Versio Antiqua Latina cum Paraphrasi Anglo-Saxonica (1835)

Wormald, Francis, English Drawings of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (London: Faber and Faber, 1952)