Manuscripts
Manuscript:
Cambridge, St John's College, MS C 9 = Southampton Psalter
- s. x/xiin
Blom, Alderik H., Glossing the Psalms: the emergence of the written vernaculars in western Europe from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017.
55–90 [Pt I, Chapter 4] “Two Psalters with text glossing: the Southampton and St Caimín Psalters”
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)
Henry, Françoise, “Remarks on the decoration of three Irish psalters”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 61 C (1960–1961): 23–40.
Results for Cambridge (118)
Not yet published.
A part of the ‘Cotton-Corpus legendary’ which covers feast-days for the months of October, November and December. The other parts of the legendary are to be found in London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero E i.
- s. xi2
- s. xii + xiv
- s. xii + xiv
Various transcripts, including one of Vita Ælfredi regis from what was London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho A xii (before the 1731 fire), created for Matthew Parker at a time when Parker had not yet added his interpolations to the exemplar.
- c. 1550 x 1574
A vellum manuscript of northern English provenance.
- c. 1170
