File 4 - Psalterium

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Psalterium

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  • 1200-1300 (Creation)

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1 volume 10+ x 7+ in., 96 ff.; 25 lines to a page vellum

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James suggests this came from an Augustinian house. At f.1 is the note: "Iste liber pertinet Thome Bryston" [16C] and the name of Thomas Thomylthorp [17C]

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Psalter; M. R. James's no. 21. Contains psalms and canticles, preceded by hymns and followed by the litany, "sequences" and "Virgo gaude". Names of saints in the litany have been altered to match the Sarum form. The "sequences" include music for the first verse of each.The end flyleaf is from a 13C missal; its contents include the proper prefaces for Easter.

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      Microfilm available.

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