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David filius Iesse cum esset in regno suo
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Psalter preface on the composition of the Psalms and the role of four musicians, Asaph, Eman, Ethan and Idithun (Jeduthun), who are said to have been appointed by King David.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 18
rubric: Origo prophetiae David regis psalmorum numero CL. Lege in pace, frater karissime incipit: David filius Iesse
f. 15r
Text
Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 18
rubric: Origo prophetiae David regis psalmorum numero CL. Lege in pace, frater karissime incipit: Dauid filius Iesse
f. 15r
Text
Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 3
rubric: Origo prophetiae David regis psalmorum numero CL lege in pace frater karissime incipit: David, filius Iesse, cum esset in regno suo, quattuor elegit, qui Psalmos facerent s. ix. Available from e-codices.
f. 194ra
Text
Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS C 301 inf
A copy with Irish glosses. Foll. by Jerome’s Scio quosdam.
Text
Montpellier, École de Médecine, MS H 409
rubric: Origo prophetiae Dauid regis psalmorum numero CL. Lege in pace fratres karissimi Psalter from Mondsee, near Salzburg, possibly associated with Alcuin. The preface is edited by Franz Unterkircher, Die Glossen des Psalters von Mondsee vor 788 (1974): 69.
f. 15r-v
Text
Salisbury, Cathedral Library, MS 180
Breton manuscript.
Text
Sources
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] De Bruyne, Donatien, Préfaces de la Bible latine, Namur: Godenne, 1920.
Uni-goettingen.de: <link>
43–44
[ed.] Stokes, Whitley, and John Strachan [eds.], Thesaurus palaeohibernicus: a collection of Old-Irish glosses, scholia, prose, and verse, 3 vols, vol. 1: Biblical glosses and scholia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901.
comments: The first volume of Thesaurus palaeohibernicus covers glosses and scholia on the Old and New Testament. Reprinted by DIAS in 1975.
Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link>
8–9 Text from the Milan MS, together with Irish glosses.
[dipl. ed.] Ascoli, G. I. [ed.], Il codice irlandese della Ambrosiana, 2 volsI. Il testo e le chiose; II. Appendice e illustrazioni, Archivio glottologico italiano, 5, 6, Rome: Loescher, 1878–1879.
Internet Archive – vol. 1 (originally from Google Books): <link>
4–5 Diplomatic version from the Milan manuscript.
[ed.] Migne, Jacques-Paul (ed.), Venerabilis Bedae: anglo-saxonis presbyteri, opera omnia, t. 4, Patrologia Latina, 93, Paris, 1862.
Internet Archive: <link>
477–480 Version from De titulis psalmorum (MSS in Munich and Stuttgart) as printed by Herwagen (1563).
[ed.] Migne, Jacques-Paul [gen. ed.], Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi Stridonensis presbyteri opera omnia ... t. undecimus et ultimus, Patrologia Latina, 30, Paris, 1846.
Gallica: View in Mirador Internet Archive – 1865 reprint, with different page numbering: <link>
295B–296C (305–306 in later reprint) [‘Epistola XLVII, Hieronymi ad Damasum’]
Secondary sources (select)
Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, no. 414.
McNamara, Martin, “Tradition and creativity in early Irish psalter study”, in: Martin McNamara, The Psalms in the early Irish Church, 165, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. 239–301.
258–259, 287 Reprint.
McNamara, Martin, “Tradition and creativity in early Irish psalter study”, in: Próinséas Ní Chatháin, and Michael Richter (eds), Irland und Europa: die Kirche im Frühmittelalter / Ireland and Europe: the early church, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1984. 338–389.
353, 376
McNamara, Martin, “Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200)”, in: Martin McNamara, The Psalms in the early Irish Church, 165, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. 19–142.
Reprint.
44 Reprint.
McNamara, Martin, “Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600–1200)”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 73 C (1973): 201–298.
MIRABILE, Online: Studio del Medioevo Latino, 2009–present. URL: <http://www.mirabileweb.it>.
abstract:
MIRABILE è un knowledge management system per lo studio e la ricerca sulla cultura medievale promosso dalla Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino e dalla Fondazione Ezio Franceschini ONLUS di Firenze.
