The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.3.10
Manuscript Title

Psalter

Alternative Title

Psalterium.

James Number 1182
Century 15th
Physical Description

24 lines to a page. Well written.

Provenance

Given by Gale in 1668: at the top of f.1 is: Officium B. Mariae. No. 443: formerly S. A. 17. It is probably no.568 among the Trinity College MSS. in Cat. MSS. Angl. I.2, p.101. On ff.14b, 140b is the name George Rayner of Peterburrough, which occurs in MSS. Sidney Sussex College, 95, 96. It has also the arms of Tunstall.

Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 30.5 x 21
Folio 1 + 144 ff.
Binding Old leather with stamps (I) fleur de lys; (2) square: man with spear between trees; (3) triangular: dragon. Clasps gone.
Material Parchment
Language LatinMiddle English
Collation

16 28-188 (7, 8 canc.) 196 (5, 6 canc.).

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.3.10/manifest.json
Online Since 18/06/2013

Contents

f.1 Kalendar (York) in red and black
At the foot of each page are the 'testa omnino tenenda in archiepiscopatu Eboraci,' in red. Cf. MS. Sid. Suss.
6 Id. Jan. Transl. s. Willelmi Archiep. Ebor. semper celebretur dominica proxima post festum Epiph., in red.
2 Non. Feb. S. Gilberti Conf. non pont.
8 Kal. Mai. Transl. S. Wilfridi Archiep.
Non. Mai. S.Johannis Archiep. Beuerlaci Conf. dupl. (omnino tenend.), in red.
7 Kal. Jun. S. Bede presb.
6 Id. Jun. S. Willelmi Archiep. C. (omnino tenend.), in red.
7 Id. Jul. S. Euerildis V. non M.
5 Id. Aug. Obitus Johannis Rotherham a.d. m.iiijclxxxxij (added in red).
8 Id. Oct. Ob. domine Alicie Rotherham a.d. m.iiiic.lxxix (added in red).
4 Id. Oct. S. Wilfridi Arch. Ebor. (omnino tenend.), in red.
14 Kal. Nov. Festum SS. reliquiarum Ebor. ecclesie.
10 Kal. Nov. S. Romani Archiep.
8 Kal. Nov. Transl. S. Joh. Beuerlac.
3 Kal. Nov. S. Germani capuani Ep. C.
At the top of f.6b is a late note of the date of the Lateran Council 1215.
f.7 Hic inc. matutine de passione domini
f.11b Office of the Holy Face: four lines in red at top
Hanc cum scripturam legis inspiciendo figuram
Illo nempe die pietatis munere dye
Non formidabis hostes tutusque meabis
Nec facies aliqua te contristabit iniqua.
f.12b Hanc orationem composuit Egidius magnus et dominus papa Joh. xxii dedicauit eam C. dierum indulgencie. Et b. leo papa adiunxit quadraginta dies cotidie deuote dicentibus
Picture of the wound in the side.
Salue plaga lateris nostri redemptoris.
f.13 Summa annorum indulgencie de ueneracione passionis d. n. I. C. etc
Picture of the instruments of the Passion.
Crucem coronam spineam
Clauos diramque lanceam/ Deuote ueneremur.
Three prayers follow.
f.14b Prayer. Suscipere dignare d. s. pater omnipotens eterne deus hos psalmos etc.
Inc. liber ympnorum uel soliloquiorum dauid regis et prophete de Christo. psalmus dauid
Text begins f.15.
The antiphons are added in the lower margin.
The beginnings of the nocturnes have borders and historiated initials: also Quid gloriaris but not Domine exaudi.
f.100 Cantica
f.108 Litany
Apostles. Marcialis, Timotheus.
Martyrs. Alban, Oswald, Edmund.
Confessors. Paulinus, John, Wilfrid, William.
Virgins. Hilda, Everildis, Etheldreda.
Suffrage: Ut regibus et principibus nostris.
f.112 Hymns. Dom. i. aduentus ad vesperas
Conditor alme.
Ending: In festo unius virginis in laudibus
Ihesu corona uirginum.
f.136b De modo dicendi exequias defunctorum
Placebo domino.
f.141 On the excellence of the Psalter
Canticum psalmorum animas decorat etc.
f.141b Index of the Psalms and Canticles, headed:
Touz les psalmz del psalter.
f.143b Prayer with English Introduction
Þis orison o sorow and compassioun off oure laydy saynt mary gedrit to gydyr saynt anselme hir prest. What man sayes it deuotly etc.
-What so scho wylle . þat wylle hyr sonne.
Gaude cum Symeon senex prophetauit etc.
(Five joys.)
f.144b Prayer
O bone Ihesu.

On the verso of the flyleaf has been pasted a very early copper engraving of the Virgin and Child, the greater part of it now torn off.

Below is a shield: quarterly 1 and 4 arg. between 6 martlets gu., a bend dexter of the same (with 3 round spots or), 2, 3 sable, three combs arg. These are the arms of Tunstall.

Bibliography

Scott, K., Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Iluminated in the British Isles 6, 2 vols. (London, 1996), no. 32, ill. 142-4.

Friedman, J. B., Northern English books, owners, and makers in the late Middle Ages (Syracuse, NY, 1995)

Hennessy, M. (ed),Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott: Essays on English Medieval Manuscripts (Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2009)

Mooney, L. R., The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist 11: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1995), p. 109.

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