Manuscripts
The following is mainly based on McNamara’s description.(1)n. 1 Martin McNamara, ‘Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200)’ in The Psalms in the early Irish Church... (2000): 43–44
f. 1
Old Irish poem
f. 1
Old Irish poem
f. 1
The work is described here as a commentary of St Jerome. This statement is echoed in a catalogue of 1461 which was compiled at Bobbio.(2)n. 2 Martin McNamara, ‘Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200)’ in The Psalms in the early Irish Church... (2000): 45.
f. 2a
At the top of the page, the work is presented as Liber sancti Columbani de Bobio (‘The book of Saint Columbanus from Bobbio’).(3)n. 3 Martin McNamara, ‘Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200)’ in The Psalms in the early Irish Church... (2000): 45.
f. 2a–
Jerome's preface to the Gallican Psalter
f. 2b–
Pseudo-Bede's preface to the Psalter
f. 2c–
Jerome's preface to his translation of Hebrew psalms
f. 3a–
St Basil's preface to the Psalter as translated by Rufinus
f. 4a.17–
invocation, followed by a commentary on Psalm 16:11
f. 4a.22–
Theodore's commentary on psalms 17-40:13, as translated by Julian of Eclanum
f. 14a–
