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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.

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)

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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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