Psalter with gloss in Old English; A Lunarium for bloodletting; The Six Ages of the World; A list of the bishops of Winchester
Description
Contents: f. 1r: A lunarium (lunar calendar) for bloodletting. ff.
1v-12r: A liturgical calendar including computational material
('Winchester computus') for the moveable feasts (f. 8r). The Dogs
days ( dies caniculares ) and Egyptian days are mentioned (ff.
2r-7v). ff. 13r-119r: A Gallican version of the Psalms including
glosses in Old English (ff. 13r-46r, 52v-119r). A paraphrase of
Psalm 50 (ff. 46v-52r). ff. 119r-132v: Canticles and Litanies. ff.
133r-142v: Petitions and prayers added by a 12th-century hand
(probably a Norman scribe, see Gullick, ‘Manuscrits et copistes
normands en Angleterre (XIe-XIIe siècles)' (1999), pp. 83-93).ff.
143r-148v: Prayers (imperfect). ff. 149r-149v: The Six Ages of the
World in Old English (f. 149r) followed by a list of the bishops of
Winchester from Birinus to Walkelin 1070-1090 (f.
149v).Decoration:2 full-page miniatures of the Crucifixion (ff.
12v, 52v), the first in coloured outlines, the second fully painted
and with a historiated full border of the symbols of the
Evangelists. 12 outline drawings of signs of the Zodiac in red ink
in the calendar (ff. 2r-7v). 1 historiated initial (f. 13r), and 2
decorated foliate initials (ff. 53r, 85r), all in colours and
accompanied by coloured display capitals and full foliate borders.
Large initials at the beginning of each Psalm alternately in red or
blue, some with penwork decoration. Plain initials at the beginning
of each verse alternately plain red or blue. Diagrams in red and
blue. Large or small simple initials in red or green, and one in
blue.
