Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 480: Greek Psalter with Canticles and Hymns

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 480: Greek Psalter with Canticles and Hymns
Alternate Title:
Psalterium Graecum
Language:
Greek, Modern (1453- ) and Latin
Extent:
ff. 3 + 288
Dimensions:
118 Height (mm) and 97 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1100 - 1199]
Provenance:
On f. iiiv (xvi): Liber quondam Theodori Archiepiscopi Cantuar. A later Theodorian Psalter on paper is at Trinity College, B. 10. 11. and on f. 1r: Hic liber scriptus per eum qui sc(ripsit) ypomnisticon grece. This latter note refers to the copy of the Hypomnesticon of Josippus in the University Library, in the volume containing the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, etc. (Ff. 1. 24) which once belonged to Grosseteste. In that is a note referring to the 'paruum psalterium grecum.' There is no doubt that this Psalter also belonged to Grosseteste: it is full of notes in his hand. I regard it as practically certain that it came from the Franciscan Convent at Oxford, to which Grosseteste bequeathed his books. For a connexion with Oxford is betrayed by the last page (288v) on which is written: (M) .Ι. Φαρλεί Μ. Ιωαννής Φαρλεί. John Farley was an official scribe of the University of Oxford. See on no. 423 in which his name occurs.
Table of contents:
  • Greek Psalter
  • Canticles and Hymns
Description:
CCCC MS 480 is a twelfth-century Greek manuscript containing psalms, canticles and some hymns. It must have been in England as early as the thirteenth century, and was evidently much used, with marginal Latin transliterations of some of the psalms, and other notes in a variety of hands, which link it with the circle of Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253). It was believed in Parker's time to have belonged to Theodore of Tarsus, and according to a note on f.1r is in the same hand as Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.24. It is certainly later, but may possibly have a similar provenance.
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