Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 468: Psalter (Latin and Greek)

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 468: Psalter (Latin and Greek)
Alternate Title:
Psalterium Latino-Graecum
Language:
Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), and Greek, Modern (1453- )
Extent:
ff. 10 + 158
Dimensions:
153 Height (mm) and 113 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1275 - 1299]
Provenance:
On f. iir (xiii-xiv): psalterium grecum prioris (erased) Gregorii. and I have elsewhere (Sources, p. 10) shewn that this is the Psalter of Gregory of Huntingdon, Prior of Ramsey (fl. cir. 1250). It is named among his books in the fragmentary catalogue of Ramsey library, printed in Chron. Abb. Ramesiensis (Rolls, p. 365). He possessed two Greek Psalters besides a good many Hebrew books.
Table of contents:
  • List of Greek prepositions
  • Miscellaneous verses and prognostics
  • Kalendar of Ramsey Abbey
  • Psalter in Latin and Greek. Litany (fragment)
Description:
The psalter in CCCC MS 468, dating to c. 1250, has parallel Latin-Greek text, although the Greek is written in Latin script. It contains a calendar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ramsey and probably belonged to the prior, Gregory of Huntingdon (fl. c. 1290). On the front flyleaf are the cipher characters of a Greek system of numbers brought back from Greece by John of Basingstoke, archdeacon of Leicester (d. 1252). The book also contains a section of verses concerned with prognostics, proverbs and the world of nature.
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