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Alternative title

Psalterium Graecum

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 3 + 288

Date created

[ca. 1100-1199]

Language

Greek, Modern (1453- ), Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

17 lines to a page

Height (mm)

118

Width (mm)

97

Collation

a (three) 1(8)-14(8) (+8*) 15(8) (7 canc.) 16(8) (5, 8 canc.) 17(8)-35(8) 36(10) (misbound; 7, 8, 9 precede 3, 4, 5, 6).

Writing

in fine minuscule hanging from lines ruled with a dry point

Foliation

ff. a-b + i-iii + 1-288 + iv-v + c-d

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.

Additions

The second last flyleaf (now last flyleaf, f. vr) is a printed leaf, cut at top and bottom, with alphabetical list of Latin incipits of Psalms and then Numerus secundum Hebreos. Printed at London by Richard Jugge and J. Cawood

Summary

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.

Contents

Greek Psalter -- Canticles and Hymns

M.R. James Date

xii

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dq716yd6601/MS_480.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ym637fj9906/480.pdf

Contains

• Greek Psalter. 1r-255r

  James

  Psalterium Graecum. 1r-255r

  Note

  Title in red capitals surrounded by ornament in red

  Rubric

  (1r) Ψαλτήριον τερπν̀ον εἰς θὲον μέλος

  Note

  Marginal notes in Latin and Greek occur throughout the book. They are in several hands. On the first six leaves (and f. 7r) is a copious series in a neat upright hand of cent. xiii-xiv which gives a Latin rendering of each alternate verse or half verse. I do not think that these are by Grosseteste
  On f. 9v is the first good specimen of a note in Grosseteste's hand: it is a transliteration of the title of Ps. ix: doxa kath .. eis telos yper ton kryphion tu autu (erased) iiu [autou psalmos to dauid (in different ink and probably different hand)] gloria in finem super ocultis filii
  (9v) This is in a peculiar straggling hand. Similar transliterations of the titles are nearly always given. The other neater hand continues to add marginal and interlinear glosses. Grosseteste (or a contemporary) occasionally writes in Greek characters, and these resemble the script of the Greek Lexicon now at the College of Arms, which I assign to his school (see Mélanges Chatelain 1910 for an account of it)
  On f. 41r a note by Grosseteste on ἐγκαινισμός
  (85r) The psalm (53, 54) Deus in nomine tuo has a complete interlinear Latin gloss in a very small fine hand which also appears on f. 1r
  On f. 81r and after, the transliterations of the titles are in a small black firm hand unlike Grosseteste's
  (112v) is largely illegible
  (126v) After ps. 76 (77) Voce mea a page is left blank. On it is an (obituary) inscription in black-green ink, the first lines carefully erased. It is not in the hand of the text, but it gives a date in June of the year of the world 6663, corresponding to 1154 or 1155 AD.
  On f. 206v is some transliteration in an Italian hand, fine and small. The same hand, larger, appears on f. 218r and perhaps on f. 257v. The upper part of f. 208r is re-written in a good round hand. Psalter ends f. 255r with Ps. 151 (Pusillus eram)

• Canticles and Hymns. 255v-288v

  Note

  (255v) Cantica: Mosis (Ex. xv) Mosis (Deut. xxxiii) Annae Abacuc Isaiae Ionae Azariae et Benedicite Magnificat Benedictus Canticum Ezechiae Oratio Manassis Nunc dimittis

  Rubric

  (279r) ́̔Υμνος ἐωθινός

  Incipit

  (279r) Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις

  Rubric

  (280r) Μακαρισμὸι ἐκ του̑ κατ̀α Ματθ. εὑαγγελίου
  (280v) ́̔Υμνος ἑσπερινός

  Incipit

  (280v) Φω̑ς ἱλαρ̀ον

  Note

  (281r) ff. 281r-283v are intrusive. The text of the hymn ends f. 284r followed by

  Rubric

  (284r) Τυπικ̀α τη̑ς ἐκκλησίας του̑ θεου̑

  Incipit

  (284r) Ὁ μονογεν̀ης υἳος

  Note

  (Hymn of Justinian)

  Rubric

  (284r) ́̔Υμνος χερουβικ̀ος

  Incipit

  (284r) Οἱ τ̀α χερουβ̀ιμ

  Rubric

  (284v) Πληρωθήτω τ̀ο στόμα ὑμω̑ν

  Incipit

  (284v) Σ́υμβολον ά̔γιον ἐκτεθ̀εν παρ̀α τω̑ν ἁγίων πατέρων ἐν τη̑ ἐκκλησία του̑ θεου̑

  Rubric

  (285v) Διδασκαλία του̑ κυρίου ἡμω̑ν Ἰ. Χ. ἐκ του̑ κατὰ Ματθ. εὑαγγ.

  Note

  (Pater noster)

  Rubric

  (286r) Εἰς τ̀α ἀπόδειπνα

  Incipit

  (286r) Μεθ ἡμω̑ν ὁ θὲος
  (287r) Τ̀ην ἡμέραν παρελθ̀ων εὐχαριστω̑ σοι
  (287v) Ἡ ἀσ́ωματος φ́υσις, τ̀α χερυβ̀ιμ

  Note

  (Continued f. 281r)

  Incipit

  (281r) Δευ̑τε πάντες πιστὸι προσκυνήσομεν τ̀ον δεσπότην
  (282r) Δόξαι φων̀ας οὐράνιε
  (282v) Παναγία δέσποινα θεοτόκε
  (282v) Ἡ ἀκατάληπτος δ́υναμις
  (283r) Τω̑ν ἀοράτων ἐχθρω̑ν
  (283r) Τ̀ην ἀκαταίσχυντον θεοτόκε
  (283v) Σ̀ε τ̀ο ἀπόρθητον τει̑χος

  Note

  Continued f. 288r, ending

  Explicit

  (288r) ἡ ἐλπ̀ις ἡμω̑ν. κυρίε ελε. ρ κὰι ἀπολ:

  Note

  An erasure of several lines below
  On f. 288v in another hand (xii-xiii)
  (288v) ἀνα δ́υιο (?) ἡμέρας οὐ σινοι[κί]σης . οὐ σικιάσης . ἁμπέλ[ον μ̀η] φιτέυσης . οί̓κον μ̀η θεμ[ελίωσης] δένδρον μ̀η κεντρίσης . εις ...ματίαν μόιαν μ̀η ἀπέλθης ...μ̀ι αγωράσης (?) . σηνάλλαγμα μ̀η .... ὁ ασθενον οὐ ζ̀ι . τ̀ο γενόμε[νον] οὐ ζη . τετράποδον μ̀ι ἀγωρ[άσης] μ̀ι τον αλλον (?) τ̀η εχειρίσης . ταυταις ἡμέρες . αυτε γαρ ε ἠμε[ρε ει]σιν κατηραμένε ισιν παρα το .. / εισιν δε αυται:- Μηνι σεμπτερίο ... / Μηνι οκτωβριω . γ̄ κ̄ ᾱ
  It is a warning about unlucky days in Sept. and Oct.

TJames

385

Stanley

Misc. 26

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 480

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