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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 075: Glossed Psalter (Glossa ordinaria)

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 075: Glossed Psalter (Glossa ordinaria)

Description

Alternative title
Psalterium Glosatum
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 280
Date created
[ca. 1200-1225]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 56 lines (gloss: text indented in it in larger script)
Height (mm)
419
Width (mm)
289
Collation
1(8)-29(8) 30(12) 32(10) 33(8) 34(10).
Writing
in a splendid hand of the St Albans type
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-280 + iii-iv
Research
The book should be compared with the glosses on the Gospels and Epistles at Trinity College B. 5. 3, O. 5. 8, both from St Albans.
2 fo.
in deum
per quod ad eum

Abstract/Contents

Summary
This large glossed Psalter, CCCC MS 75, dating to c. 1220, contains the commentary of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160) completed towards the end of his life in 1158/9. This was the most read of all commentaries on the psalms in the later centuries of the Middle Ages. This is a luxury copy with historiated initials placed at the liturgical divisions of the psalms, even though this book was intended for scholarly rather than liturgical use. The iconography of these initials is characteristic of the specifically English system used in the thirteenth century, although some of them, like Noah's drunkenness for psalm 51, are rarely found. M. R. James suggested that the script was characteristic of the abbey of St Albans, but the study by Thomson of St Albans books of this period rejects it. It might have been made in East Anglia because it is illuminated by the same artists as the Psalter, London, BL MS Lansdowne 431, which was made for an Augustinian house in that region, perhaps Barnwell near Cambridge.
Contents
Glossed Psalter (Glossa ordinaria)

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xiii early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dc568sv6844/MS_75.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mj048bg6908/75.pdf
Contains
  • Glossed Psalter (Glossa ordinaria). 1r-279v
    James
    Glossa ordinaria super Psalmos. 1r-279v
    Note
    Prologue
    Incipit
    (1r) Cum omnes prophetas
    Explicit
    (2r) sedet sed secundus est
    Note
    The cycle of subjects in the historiated initials is very unusual
    Incipit
    (2v) Beatus vir
    Note
    (2v) Large and splendid initial, chiefly in red and gold on blue ground in gold frame. The letter is filled with convolutions and contains also small red and white beasts. Initials to verses alternately red and blue with flourishing in blue or red
    Incipit
    (44v) Dominus illuminatio
    Note
    (44r) Fine decorative initial to gloss, on purple ground. Noli me tangere<br />(44v) Initial to Psalm. Christ stands on R. with small cross. On R, and L. are hares. Burnished gold ground
    Incipit
    (71v) Dixit custodiam
    Note
    (71r) Initial to gloss has wrestlers<br />(71v) Initial to Psalm. Judgment of Solomon. Solomon sits on L., a man with silver sword before him: two women, one holding a child, on R.
    Incipit
    (94r) Quid gloriaris
    Note
    (93v) Fine decorative initial to gloss<br />(94r) Initial to Psalm. The shame of Noah: he lies in front: his three sons and Canaan stand over him: two spread a robe over him
    Incipit
    (95r) Dixit insipiens
    Note
    (95r) Decorative init. to gloss<br />(95r) Initial to Psalm. Balaam on ass, with whip of three lashes, faces R. The angel on R. with sword holds the ass's bridle. Blue ground outside the letter
    Incipit
    (122r) Salvum me fac
    Note
    (121v) Initial to gloss decorative<br />(122r) Psalm. Above, three men, one with long blank scroll, thrust Jonah out of boat. Below, Jonah with scroll sits (not astride) on the back of a purple fish. Two trees seen behind
    Incipit
    (154r) Exultate
    Note
    (154r) Decorative initial to gloss, purple ground external<br />(154r) Psalm. Above, a figure, nude but for mantle, with silver sword. Below, seated figure with two scrolls
    Incipit
    (180v) Cantate
    Note
    (180v) Decorative initial to gloss<br />(180v) Psalm. Two shepherds look up: one points to star above in cloud. In front sheep and on R. a comical dog
    Incipit
    (184v) Domine exaudi
    Note
    (184v) Decorative initial to gloss<br />(184v) Psalm. A bearded man seated face R. with hands raised: a youth on L. Above, a cloud: and on R. a building in layers of blue and red divided by bands of vermilion: it has a turret
    Incipit
    (208r) Dixit dominus
    Note
    (208r) Decorative initial to gloss<br />(208r) Psalm. The Annunciation. The angel stands on L, on a rock holding blank scroll. The Virgin on R. with book
    Explicit
    (279v) uite eterne uox est. omnis spiritus laudet dominum. Finite Christus rex libro sit benedictus. Amen
    Note
    280r-280v blank
TJames
140
Stanley
M. 2
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 075

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