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

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

Description

Alternative title
Psalterium Latino-Graecum
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 10 + 158
Date created
[ca. 1275-1299]
Language
Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Greek, Modern (1453- )
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 30 lines
Height (mm)
153
Width (mm)
113
Collation
1 flyleaf, a(8) (+1) | 1(10) (7 canc.) 2(8)-9(8) 10(12) 11(8)-18(8) (+4*) 19(8).
Writing
in a very good small hand
Foliation
ff. a + i-x + 1-158 + b-c
Provenance
On f. iir (xiii-xiv): psalterium grecum prioris (erased) Gregorii.
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.
Additions
f. ir is blank: on f. iv a diagram of a method of writing numerals, which results in the following series of characters, written separately on R.

Abstract/Contents

Summary
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.
Contents
List of Greek prepositions -- Miscellaneous verses and prognostics -- Kalendar of Ramsey Abbey -- Psalter in Latin and Greek. Litany (fragment)

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xiii late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rn426ck5240/MS_468.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fr688hb0930/468.pdf
Contains
  • List of Greek prepositions. iiv-iiiv
    Note
    (iiv) In a hand of cent. xiii late, a list of Greek prepositions and their meanings
    Incipit
    (iiv) apo longitudinem. unde apologus dicitur ab apo quod est longe et logos sermo priuacionem. unde apocalipsis ab apo quod est de et calipsos uelacio
    Note
    The other prepositions are: ypo, yper, epi, peri, para, chata, meta, dia, ana, anti, amphi
    ypres prope. ex hoc ut quidam dicunt dicitur interpres. en, sin, pros
  • Miscellaneous verses and prognostics. ivr-xv
    Note
    In a different and thicker hand
    (ivr) a.
    Incipit
    (ivr) In principio creauit deus ... faciem abissi
    Explicit
    (ivr) propter hoc fecit deus duo luminaria ... Circulus lune constat ex xix annis. Circulus autem solis ex xx octo annis
    Note
    (ivr) b.
    Miscellaneous verses
    Incipit
    (ivr) Cultor erat gratus bene degens fiat amatus
    Note
    On numbers, kalendar, compotus
    Note
    Incipit
    (viv) Sciendum quod dies dicitur dupliciter
    Note
    (viir) c.
    Change of hand. Prognostics of Esdras
    Incipit
    (viir) Signum quod ostendit dominus hesdre prophete ut ostenderet filiis hominum. kal. ianuarii si fuerint die dominico hyemps bona erit
    Note
    See Tischendorf, Apoc. Apocr. and Mercati, Studi e testi 5 (1901), p. 74 for other texts
    Incipit
    (viir) Olim dictum erat in gallia quod spiritus nequam de iiii filiis regis Hnr II taliter creditur prophetasse. li plus beus a martheus. li marchis a paris. li peteuin a limozin. li sanztere mora en bere Hnr. gaufridus. Ricard. Iohannes
    Note
    (Much corrected by the original hand)
    (viiv) d.
    Verses on trees (11)
    Incipit
    (viiv) Fraxinus et corulus planus et salix acer ornus
    Explicit
    (viiv) Fucus auellana glans nux castanea barra
    Note
    (viiv) e.
    On avarice
    Incipit
    (viiv) Captiuata largitas longe relegaturExulansque probitas misere fugatur Dum uirtuti prauitas praue nouercatur Imperat cupiditas atque principatur
    Explicit
    (viiir) Redimuntur scelera mediante precioCuius offert dextera mundus abit uicioEt euadit aspera et expirat ulcioSic excusant munera quos accusat accio
    Note
    (viiir) f.
    Prognostics of thunder according to the zodiacal signs
    Incipit
    (viiir) Accedens quicunque cupis cognoscere uerbaLucida laudanda uera probata bona
    Note
    Ends
    Explicit
    (xr) Esto memor quod si tonitrum duo signa ministratIudicium primum non feret immo sequens
    Note
    (xr) g.
    Proverbial verses
    Incipit
    (xr) Cui satis est quod habet satis illum constat habere
    Note
    On f. xv in a large hand
    Incipit
    (xv) Aspiciens. ueterem. circum. quasi. quis. benedicta
    Note
    (xv) h.
    Hand of cent. xvi
    Rubric
    (xv) Noys sermo ad hominem
    Note
    (22 lines)
    Incipit
    (xv) Sensilis hic mundus mundi melioris ymagoVt plenus plenis partibus esse queat
    Explicit
    (xv) Vt indeflexos leges celique meatusExemplar uite possit habere sue
  • Kalendar of Ramsey Abbey. 1r-9v
    Note
    The main hand begins
    Kalendar in red, blue and black
    JanuaryMaurus red, Wulstan blue February 28. Osuualdi archiepiscopi blue March Cuthbert red. Erasures (red) on 29 and 31 April 11. Guthlacii red 19. Ælphegii archiepiscopi martyris red 24. Inuentio Sancti yuonis archiepiscopi blue May Dunstan red, Augustine blue June 10. Translatio Sancti yuonis archiepiscopi blue, with octave 23. Etheldrede xii lectiones 30. Marcialis episcopi July 17. Kenelmi regis in red 31. Neoti abbatis et Germani episcopi red September 10. Eguuini episcopi red 16. egithe Virginis (!) 22. Dedicatio ecclesie Ram(esie) blue October 8. Translatio Sancti Osuualdi blue 17. Æthelredi et æthelbricti blue November 16. Ædmundi Confessoris red 17. Hugonis episcopi blue 20. Ædmundi Regis martyris red December 4. Tumulatio Sancti Benedicti red
    ff. 7r-9v blank
  • Psalter in Latin and Greek. Litany (fragment). 10r-158v
    Nasmith
    Psalterium Latino-Graecum, viz. Latinum ex una parte paginae, ex altera Graecum literis Latinis scriptum. 10r-158v
    James
    Psalter in Latin (Gallican version), and Greek in Latin letters. 10r-158v
    Note
    Psalmus primus sic incipit: Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum, et in via peccatorum non stetit, et iin cathedra pestilentiae non sedit Macharios anir os ku keporeutihi en buli asebon ke en odo amartholon uc esti ke epi cathedran limon uck eka- thisen
    I give as a specimen Ps. iii
    (11r)
    It will be seen that the Greek contains a good many mistakes
    (18r) In Ps. xiii the verses Sepulcrum patens-ante oculos eorum have no equivalent in the Greek
    Titles are in Latin only
    On and after ff. 81v, 82r the two inner columns are every now and then given to the Greek and the two outer to the Latin. This is not continuous. Sometimes the Latin and Greek change places irregularly: after about f. 100r the old arrangement is resumed
    At Ps. cx (cxi) is the note: alfabetum hebreum. quere super hunc locum in triplici psalterio
    The lower part of f. 125v is blank, without defect in the text. On f. 126v a blank is left and the latter half of Ps. cxviii (cxix) Jod (manus tuae fecerunt me) is wanting
    After f. 145v is an inserted leaf in the same hand but larger script (f. 146r-146v), containing a supply of an omission on f. 146r
    Ps. cli Pusillus eram follows on f. 146v
    At the end, in the Greek column
    Rubric
    (147v) exelipon i psalmi dauid tu basileos. Expl. psalmi dauid regis
    (147v) Incipiunt cantica
    Note
    Asma ysaye profite. Cant. Ezechie, Anne, Moysi (1), Abbacuc, Moysi (2), Benedicite, Benedictus, Magnificat, Nunc dimittis, Pater noster, Credo (printed by Ussher, De Symbolis, Opera VII 307, 8)
    Ending
    Explicit
    (158v) Vitam eternam. Amen. Zoin eonion amin
    Note
    Litany, in Latin only, in two columns. Apostles: Marcialis. Martyrs: Stephane, Clemens, Syxte, Dionisii cum sociis Thoma Nigasi cum sociis, Gereon. cum sociis ending here imperfectly
TJames
179
Stanley
N. 15
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 468

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