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Fragmenta Manuscripta 046: Psalter, glossed

Information About This Item

Title

Fragmenta Manuscripta 046: Psalter, glossed

Date

1050 - 1099

Description

Psalm 134, verse 10. Single column with 22 lines of text visible, gloss alternates, but no ruling for glossed lines, bounding lines, with one outer line, 8mm out, ruling with drypoint on verso (flesh).

Condition: Some evidence of cropping
Note: Post-conquest date for hand; a pencilled marginal note compares script to London, BL, Harley 2904, dated s. x from Ramsey Abbey by N.R. Ker, in Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964). (Letter from T.A.M. Bishop to B.S. Cron, Cambridge, 27 May 1955, part of Fragmenta Manuscripta files)

Relation

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.

Is Referenced By

Digital Scriptorium: https://search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS10119

Identifier

Fragmenta Manuscripta 046

Provenance

John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Format

Parchment - 250 x 145 mm

Language

Latin

Type

manuscript fragment

Coverage

England, Ramsey Abbey?