Number

381

Shelfmark

London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A. i (the ‘Vespasian Psalter’)

Date

viii2/4

Origin

Canterbury (CC?)

Provenance

whole MS Canterbury StA

Contents

• introductory texts to the psalms (including SK 10728, 12730)
• interpretations of Alleluia, Gloria and Hebrew letters (in Ps. CXVIII)
• Psalterium Romanum°
• excerpts from Cassiodorus, Expositio psalmorum (CPL 900)
• canticles°
• three hymns° (SK 15627, 3544, 14234)
• Te Deumo, Quicumque uulto (Athanasian Creed), prayers

Bibliography

MSS

• Thompson—Warner (1881-4) 8
• Wildhagen (1913) 435-41
• CLA II (1935) no. 193
• Kuhn (1943)
• Weber (1953) xiii
• Gneuss (1957)
• N.R. Ker (1957) no. 203
• T.A.M. Bishop (1959-63a) 94
• Lowe (1960) 21 [nos. XXVI-XXVII]
• N.R. Ker (1964) 43
• Bischoff (1966-81) II.252, 333
• D.H. Wright (1967) 15-80
• Gamber (1968-88) no. 1612
• T.A.M. Bishop (1971) 22 [no. 25]
• A.G. Watson (1979) I.11
• G. Henderson (1982) 14-15, 43-5
• Voigts (1988) 84
• M.P. Brown (1989a) 155
• P.L. Heyworth (1989) 15
• Toon (1991) 91
• Webster—Backhouse (1991) no. 153 [M.P. Brown]
• Dumville (1992a) 1, 99-100, 124
• Dumville (1992b) 77-8 and n. 98
• Lapidge (1992a) 101 [repr. Lapidge (1993a) 389]
• Parkes (1992) 235
• Dumville (1993g) 122 n. 57, 130, 139
• ASMMF II (1994) 43-9 [no. 238
• Pulsiano]
• Pulsiano (1996)
• Deshman (1997) 116
• Webster—Brown (1997) 226, 241, 243 [nos. 66, 121, 131]
• Parkes (1997b) 101 and n. 5
• Gneuss (1998) 276
• Pulsiano (1998b) 85, 105 n. 1
• Gwara (1998) 145 n. 28
• Gretsch (1999a) 278, 430
• Marsden (1999) 293
• Dodwell (2000) 122 n. 96
• M.P. Brown (2001c) 48
• Rushforth (2001) 139 n. 15
• K.L. Brown (2004b) 181-2
• M.P. Brown (2004) 291
• Gullick (2004) 33 and n. 54
• Tite (2004) 15 n. 44
• Roberts (2005) 22-6
• Emms (2006) 19, 24
• Hartzell (2006) no. 142
• Karkov (2006a) 44
• Hines (2007) 73
• Shepard (2007) 201, 243 n. 130
• Barker-Benfield (2008) I.93, 442, 454, II.1371, III.1652-3, 1656, 1659, 1689, 1738, 1779, 1780, 1792-3, 1810, 1822
• Graham (2009) 160
• Wieland (2009) 135
• M.P. Brown (2012) 124, 126, 131, 137, 147
• R. Gameson (2012a) 17, 28 n. 59, 37 and nn. 88-9, 40 n. 105, 42, 53 n. 183, 56 and n. 191, 80 and n. 283, 81, 84
• Marsden (2012) 414 and n. 31
• Pfaff (2012) 451
• Raw (2012) 461 and n. 8
• Scragg (2012a) no. 597
• Toswell (2012) 470-1

DEC

• Kendrick (1938) 159-62
• McGurk (1961a) 14 [repr. McGurk (1998) no. VI]
• McGurk (1962) 31 [repr. McGurk (1998) no. VII]
• Köhler—Mütherich (1971-99) V.56, VI/i.48, VII.109, 110
• Seebass (1974)
• T.J. Brown (1975) 270 [repr. T.J. Brown (1993a) 160]
• Alexander (1978a) no. 29
• Alexander (1978b) 8
• Brownrigg (1978) 257, 258 and n. 1
• G. Henderson (1982) 29, 62 n. 91
• Lawrence (1982) 102
• D.M. Wilson (1984) 91
• Ohlgren (1986) no. 29
• G. Henderson (1987) 93
• Raw (1990) 217-18
• T.J. Brown (1993a) 273 n. 95
• R. Gameson (1994b) 29 n. 18, 36, 45 n. 98
• McGurk (1994b) 17-18 [repr. McGurk (1998) no. XII]
• Netzer (1994) 1, 71, 98, 208 n. 5, 229 n. 129, 240 n. 38
• R. Gameson (1995b) 40, 172 n. 103, 187, 197, 226, 233
• Noel (1995) 143-4 and n. 84
• R. Gameson (1999c) 330-6
• Farr (2003) 127
• K.L. Brown (2004b) 182
• M.P. Brown (2007c)
• Karkov (2009) 216, 231
• M.P. Brown (2011b) 31-2, 34, 42
• Farr (2011b) 220, 221-4
• Nees (2011) 4, 15, 25
• Netzer (2012) 228 and n. 22, 237, 238-9

FACS

• D.H. Wright (1967) [complete facsimile]
• Kuhn (1943) pl. I [fol. 117v]
• Kuhn (1948) pls. I(b) [fol. 53r], II(b) [fol. 43r]
• Lowe (1960) pls. XXVI-XXVII [fols. 53r, 141r, 9v]
• D.M. Wilson (1984) pl. 112 [fol. 30v]
• G. Henderson (1987) 93 [fol. 69v]
• Parkes (1992) pl. 43 [fol. 21v]
• ASMMF II (1994) no. 238
• Netzer (1994) pl. 84 [fol. 30v]
• Backhouse (1997) pl. 2 [fol. 30v]
• R. Gameson (1999b) frontispiece [fols. 30v, 31r (details)], 332 [fol. 21v], 333 [fol. 64v]
• K.L. Brown (2004b) p. 1 [fol. 30v]
• Roberts (2005) pls. 2(a) [fol. 93v], 2(b) [fol. 141v], p. 25 [fol. 30v]
• M.P. Brown (2007a) pl. 38 [fols. 30v, 31r]
• A. Griffiths (2007) pls. 1-2 [fol. 6r-v]
• Pulsiano (2007) 132 [fol. 61r]
• Shepard (2007) fig. 76 [fol. 53r (detail)]
• Owen-Crocker (2009) figs. 6.1 [fol. 55v], 7.8 [fol. 53r]
• R. Gameson (2012) pl. 4.3 [fols. 30v-31r]

ED

• Sweet (1885) 188-420 [base text, Latin and OE gloss, for psalter, canticles and hymns]
• Weber (1953) [psalter coll. as A]
• Kuhn (1965) [base text, Latin and OE gloss, for complete MS]
• Milfull (1996) [hymns 2, 15, 31, coll. as A]
• Pulsiano (2001a) [Pss. I-L, Latin and OE gloss, coll. as A]

LANG

• Sweet (1885) 185-7
• Kuhn (1943)
• Gneuss (1955)
• I.L. Gordon (1960) 29
• A. Campbell in D.H. Wright (1967) 85-90
• Bierbaumer (1977a)
• Wenisch (1979) 65
• Bately (1980) 41
• Kristensson (1981) 373
• Kuhn (1985)
• Mertens-Fonck (1987)
• Hofstetter (1987) 456-7
• Kitson (1990) 214
• Scragg (1994a) 328
• Wiesenekker (1994)
• Treharne (1998) 239
• Gretsch (1999a) 318 n.
• Crowley (2000) 126
• Gretsch (2001) 171
• K.L. Brown (2004b) 182
• C. Bishop (2007b) 82

ST

• Mearns (1914) 51-2, 79, 94
• Kuhn (1943)
• Kuhn (1948)
• K. Sisam (1953a) 4
• K. Sisam (1956)
• Kuhn (1957)
• K. Sisam (1957)
• Sisam—Sisam (1959) 47-52
• Gneuss (1968) 16, 17-19, 33-8, 122, 198, 209, 211 n. 11 et passim
• Lambert (1969-72) nos. 346, 347, 424, 801
• G. Watson (1969-77) [bibliography]
• Köhler—Mütherich (1971-99) VI/i. 48 and n. 29
• Berghaus (1979)
• Greenfield—Robinson (1980) nos. 189, 5938-54 [bibliography]
• Kuhn (1985)
• Gerritsen (1989a)
• Toon (1991) 91
• M.P. Brown (1996) 17, 20, 22-3, 71-3 et passim
• Discenza (1997) 94
• Budny (1999) 243, 251-2
• Marchesin (1998)
• R. Gameson (1999c) 332
• Gretsch (1999a) 26-7, 33-41, 42-88, 97, 106-7, 182-225, 278, 316-17, 318 n. 177
• Gretsch (2000)
• Pulsiano (2000) 167
• Gneuss (2003b) 297
• K.L. Brown (2004b) 182
• R. Gameson (2004b)
• A. Griffiths (2007)