The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark B.5.26
Manuscript Title Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos I: Ps 1-50
Alternative Title Augustinus Super Psalmos I.-l.
James Number 172
Century 12th
Physical Description Double columns of 40 lines. In the Canterbury hand, rather smaller than usual. Some good initials.
Provenance Given by Whitgift. From Christ Church, Canterbury. At the top of f.1 has been an inscriptionPrima pars (Augustini super psalmos),now mostly cut off. On f.171b at top is a xvth cent. inscription Prima pars psalterii Aug. de Claustro ecclesie Christi Cant. Edwards, p.155, among the Libri de armariolo claustri. There is another copy of Augustine on the Psalms in 3 parts on p.122. But B.5.28 is specially marked as de claustro, and is of the same style as the present volume. Ingram, no.76.
Second Folio paruus
Religious House Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine Cathedral Priory (Christ Church)
Donor Whitgift, John (1530/31?–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity
Size (cm) 35.5 x 26
Folio 179 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation l8-228 234 (wants 4 blank).
Notes See Gneuss (2014): Companion volume to B.5.28 (Gneuss 171) and also to Gneuss 937.5
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.5.26/manifest.json
Online Since 16/08/2013

Contents

f.1 Aur. Augustini doctoris expositionis super psalmos prima pars incipit (P.L. xxxvi.)
Beatus uir -impiorum.
De domino nostro Ihesu Christo hoc ab homine dominico.
Initial: yellow ground. Above, David crowned playing harp: a folded curtain on either side. A dove above the harp flying towards him. Below, a man on L. plays the fiddle: one on R. dances.
Ends on Ps. l: deus de illo exiget suam.
f.179b Aur. Aug. doct. expositionis super psalmos prima pars explicit

On f.179b are many scribbles of cent. xiii, one is a paragraph beginning
o sacerdos uas incontinentie uas libidinis · iuxta filium uirginis ponis idolum ueneris etc.
And several verses, e.g.
Si mori(a)tur ouis aliquit ualet illa ruina.
Extrahitur pellis et scribitur intus et extra.
Si moriatur homo moritur caro pellis et ossa.

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