Manuscripts

Cambridge, St John’s College, MS C 9 Southampton Psalter

Latin, Irish
s. x/xiⁱⁿ
Irish manuscripts
vellum

Gallican Psalter, and some canticles and prayers. It is accompanied by glosses in Latin and Irish.

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

England Cambridge, St John's College

Shelfmark

C 9

Title

Southampton Psalter

(Psalterium Suthantoniense)

Type

psalters prayers and hymns

Description

See Southampton Psalter glosses.

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin Secondary: Irish

Date

s. x/xiⁱⁿ

10th or early 11th century

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

Material

vellum

The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

Irish manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] Cambridge Digital Library, Online: University of Cambridge, 2011–present. URL: <http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk>.

direct link

[ed.] Ó Néill, Pádraig, Exegetica: Psalterium Suthantoniense, Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, 240, Turnhout: Brepols, 2012.

abstract:

The so-called ‘Southampton Psalter’ (now housed at Cambridge, St John’s College, MS C. 9) was copied and decorated in Ireland in the late tenth or early eleventh century. It contains a full text of the Psalms (in the Gallican version), selected Canticles and prayers, as well as numerous accompanying glosses, mainly in Latin with some in Irish. The glosses, which appear to have been composed around the mid-ninth century, are quite unique both as a collection and (in an Irish context) for their allegorical (rather than historical) approach to interpreting the Psalms. Although they bear witness to dependence on certain Hiberno-Latin Psalter commentaries, their primary source is an anonymous commentary from southern Gaul composed in the early seventh century, the Glosa Psalmorum ex traditione seniorum. The present edition is the first one of this codex unicus whose glosses shed new light on Psalter exegesis in early medieval Ireland.

(source: Brepols)

Secondary sources (select)

Duncan, E., The Southampton Psalter: a palaeographical and codicological exploration, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Manuscript Studies, 4, Cambridge: Department of ASNC, 2004.

Alexander, Jonathan J. G., A survey of manuscripts illuminated in the British Isles, vol. 1: Insular manuscripts, 6th-9th century, London: Miller, 1978.

88 (no. 74) + plates 350–353

Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: a list of manuscripts and manuscript fragments written or owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241, Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001.

[id. 148.]

James, Montague Rhodes, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of St John’s College, Cambridge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913.

St John's College, Cambridge – transcriptions with updated information: <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>

http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/manuscripts/medieval_manuscripts/medman/C_9.htm [id. 59.] Description of the Southampton Psalter.