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Entry 451

Number: 451
Shelfmark: London, British Library, Royal 2. B. v (the ‘Royal Psalter’)
Date: x med.
Origin: xi med. or xi2
Provenance: Canterbury CC s. xi; with additions s. x ex.-xi1

Contents

Psalterium Romanum° with commentary
canticles°: s. x med., prov. Winchester, prov. Canterbury CC s. xi. Additions: encyclopedic notes (as in nos. 56 and 90): on Christ’s Incarnation, the Ages of the World (followed here by Bede, De temporibus ch. xvi), the Ages of Man, the numbers of bones, veins and teeth in humans, the Dimensions of the World, the Temple of Solomon, the Tabernacle, St Peter’s in Rome, Noah’s Ark, the numbers of books in the Old and New Testament, the number of verses in the Psalms, units for measuring distances
thunder prognostics
prayers*
note on Friday fasts*: s. x ex. - xi1
prayer: s. xi in., Winchester
Office of the Virgin: s. xi med. or xi2, Winchester Nun? proverbs+*, prayer*: s. xi med.

Bibliography

MSS

Dewick (1902) x-xii
Warner—Gilson (1921) I.40-1
N.R. Ker (1957) no. 249
N.R. Ker (1964) 104
Parkes (1976b) 162, 163 n. 4 [repr. Parkes (1991) 159, 160 n. 4]
C.W. Jones (1980) 247
Parkes (1983) 137 n. 50
Hartzell (1989) 86
Dumville (1991-5) 48
Robinson—Stanley (1991) 26
Dumville (1992a) 102 n. 35, 125 n. 221
Dumville (1992b) 63 n. 28
Conner (1993) 63, 65, 70-1, 73, 75-6
Dumville (1993g) 14 and n. 23
ASMMF II (1994) 57-64 [no. 284
Pulsiano]
Blockley (1994)
Dumville (1994a) 147, 149-50
D. McDougall (1997) 211 n. 8, 221 n. 54
Gneuss (1998) 276
Pulsiano (1998b) 85, 105 n. 1
Gretsch (1999a) 264-8, 430-1
Crowley (2000) 132
Gretsch (2000) 86
Liuzza (2001) 225
Chardonnens (2007b) 46-7, 531-2, 553
P.A. Stokes (2007) [on fol. 198]
Scragg (2008d)
Rushforth (2011) 40-2
R. Gameson (2012a) 39 and n. 95
D. Ganz (2012) 193 and n. 32
Raw (2012) 466
Scragg (2012a) nos. 672-82
Toswell (2012) 471, 475

FACS

Dewick (1902) pls. 1-11 [fols. 1r-6r]
Warner—Gilson (1921) IV, pl. 22 {fol. 8r]
Robinson—Stanley (1991) pl. 32.1 [fol. 6r]
ASMMF II (1994) no. 284

ED

Logeman (1889) [prayers: Ker arts. c, d, e, f, i
confession and prayers: Ker art. g]
Dewick (1902) cols. 1-18 [base MS for Office of the Virgin]
Roeder (1904) xii-xiii [proverbs], 1-302 [psalter and canticles, in Latin with OE gloss]
Dobbie (1942) 109 [proverbs: Ker art. b]
Sisam—Sisam (1959) [psalter coll. as D]
Hallander (1968) [two confessional prayers: Ker arts. d, e]
Davey (1979)
Arngart (1981) 299 [base MS for proverbs 37 and 39]
Tristram (1985) 301 [Ages of the World]
Chardonnens (2007b) 265 [thunder prognostics]
Dekker (2007) 281-4 [encyclopedic notes]

LANG

ST