Manuscripts
Prolegomena
f. 1r–
Heading/rubric: ‘Praefatio Bedae presbiteri’Incipit: ‘In libro primo Paralipomenon legitur [...]’
f. 3r–
[Epistula ad Damasum papam (Jerome)]
Heading/rubric: ‘Incipit epistola Damasi, episcopi urbis Romae, ad Hieronimum presbiterum’
f. 4r–
Heading/rubric: ‘Praefatio Bedae presbiteri’
f. 7r
[Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum (‘Abessalon pater pacis’) ]
Heading/rubric: ‘Interpretatio nominum hebreorum’Incipit: ‘Abessalom’
This version of the Interpretationes has been studied by Szerwiniack (2003), who argues that it belongs to one of two families of such texts that can be associated with Bede (a manuscript of Irish interest from the other family is Laon BM 26).
f. 8v
Heading/rubric: ‘Praefatio Damasi et Hieronymi’
f. 9r
Heading/rubric: ‘Item versus’Incipit: ‘Mystica Davidicae si te modulamina musae’
f. 9v
Heading/rubric: ‘Item versus de laude psalterii’
f. 9v–
Heading/rubric: ‘Incipit prologus quem Augustinus’
Prologue attributed to St Augustine.
f. 12r
Heading/rubric: ‘De Pascha et luna ipsius ... De circulo magno Paschae ... De notis lunaribus’
f. 12v–
illustr.
Notices on musical instruments, illustrated with miniatures.
f. 13v
illustr.
Portrait of King David with lyre/harp.
f. 14r
illustr.
Portraits of musicians (top) and copyists (below) in action.
f. 14v
Table of computus.
f. 15r
[David filius Iesse cum esset in regno suo ]
Heading/rubric: ‘Origo prophetiae David regis psalmorum numero CL. Lege in pace, frater karissime’Incipit: ‘David filius Iesse’
f. 16r
Heading/rubric: ‘Dicta S. Augustini, quae sunt virtutes psalmorum’
f. 16v
Heading/rubric: ‘Item unde supra. Hieronimus’
f. 17r
Incipit: ‘Psalterium, Rome dudum positus emendaram’
Preface by Jerome.
f. 17v
Heading/rubric: ‘Oratio ante psalterium’Incipit: ‘Suscipere digneris, Domine deus omnipotens, hos psalmos consecratos [...]’
Prayer.
This is not a full table of contents. Only a couple of items are of interest to the present catalogue, although more information is provided to give a general contextual impression of the manuscript and its contents.