London. British Library, Harley MS 2928

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  • Latin
  • Old Occitan
Title
  • Psalter; Expositio Hymnorum; an Old Occitan translation of the Gospel of St John (Chapters 13 to 17); a Benediction in verse; Alcuin, De Laude Psalmorum; the canon Si Quis Suadente from the II Lateran Council (1139)
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  • Preferred form
    • Alcuin (0732?-0804)
    Original form
    • Alcuin of York, c 735-804
    Other form
    • Alcuinus
    • Alcuinus Flaccus (0732?-0804)
    • Alcuin
    • Alcuin (0732?-0804)
    • Alcuinus Eboracensis
    • ALCUINUS
    • Alcuini
    • Alcuinus Flaccus
    • Alcuinus (Alcuin)
    • Alcuin 0732?-0804
    • Alcuinus, Flaccus
    • Alcuí, ca. 735-804
    • Alcuin, 735-804
    • Alcuino
    • Alcuinus, Flaccus fl.732-804
    • Alcuinus van York
    • Author: Alcuinus, Flaccus
    • Alcuin of York
    • Alcuinus, 730?-804
    • Flaccus Alcuinus (735-804)
    • Alkuin
    • Alcuin (v. 735-804), écolâtre de l'archevêque d'York, abbé de Saint-Martin de Tours
    • Alcuinus (ca. 735-804)
    • Alcuinus, Flaccus, 735-804
    • Alcuino, 735-804 > , co-autor
    • Alcuinus Flaccus - 732 - 804 - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Pseudo-Augustinus Hipponensis
    Original form
    • Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo, Unspecified
    Other form
    • Pseudo-Augustinus
    • Augustinus Hipponensis (ps.)
    • Pseudo-AUGUSTINUS
    • Pseudo-Augustin
    • Pseudo-Augustin, Sermones de tempore, in natali Domini , sermo 128].
    • Ps. Augustinus
    • Augustinus, Aurelius (Pseudo-)
    • Augustinus (Pseudo-)
    • Pseudo Agustí
    • Pseudo Agustín, Santo
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, pseudo
    • Pseudo-Augustine
    • Augustin (saint ; auteur prétendu)
    • Pseudo-Augustine
    • Pseudo-Augustine (perhaps Quoduultdeus)
    • Pseudo-Augustine (perhaps Gilbert the Minorite)
    • (Ps.-)Augustinus
    • Pseudo-Augustinus.
    • Ps.-Augustinus
    • [Ps.-] Augustinus
    • Pseudo-Agostinho, Santo > , co-autor
    • <Pseudo->Agostinho, Santo
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis - 354 - 430 - auteur (apocrief)
    • Augustin, pseudo-
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Description
  • Contents:This 12th-century manuscript from the South of France (Aquitaine) consists of a Psalter with litanies, hymns and an Old Occitan version of the Gospel of St John (chapters 13 to 17). It ends with Pseudo-Alcuin's treatise about the use of the book of Psalms followed by a canon from the II Lateran Council and a responsory with neumes. The manuscript is decorated by four full-page miniatures, now damaged, and four other full-page miniatures were added at a later period. They are attributed to an Italian illuminator from Bologna (the Master of 1285) working during the late 13th century. The neumes, perhaps from Northern Italy (ff. 194v-196r), might have been added at the same time and suggest that the manuscript might have been in Italy in the late 13th century.ff. 1r-3v: A liturgical calendar. ff. 4r-12v: Eleven prayers preceded by pen trials, beginning: 'Domine Ihesu Christe omnipotens Deus, qui elegisti locum istum ad serviendum tibi'; a space left blank at the end of this prayer (f. 4v), and another prayer (ff. 5r-6v) beginning: 'Adoro te Domine Deus omnipotens Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus'. Prayer De Sancta Cruce (About the Holy Cross) (ff. 6v-7v); two prayers Ad Sanctam Mariam (prayers for Saint Mary the Virgin), one is in verse (ff. 7v-10r); a prayer for baptism, 'Exorcismus salis' (ff. 10r-11r); orationes ad visitandum infirmorum (Prayers for the visiting of the sick) (ff. 11r) beginning with an Antiphon for Matins at the Nativity, beginning: 'Suscepimus, Deus omnipotens, misericordiam tuam in medio temple tui' (ff. 11r-v); a prayer beginning: 'Dominus Iesus Christus apud te sit ut te defendat', followed by several benedictions from the Roman rites (ff. 11v-12r); three prayers for the absolution of the penitents (ff. 12r-v), beginning: 'In ea auctoritate et potestate fidentes'. ff. 19r-98r: A Psalter preceded by Pseudo-Augustine's prologue on Psalms (ff. 19r-v), beginning of the Prologue (f. 19r): 'Laus Psalmorum. Canticum psalmorum animas decorat'; beginning of the Psalter with Psalm 1:1 (f. 19v): 'Beatus vir qui non habit in consilio impiorum'; followed by canticles from the Old Testament and New Testament (ff. 90v-96r) and hymns (ff. 96r-97v); ending with the Athanasian Creed (ff. 97v-98r). ff. 99r-109v: Litanies and prayers, preceded by a table of contents citing the saints and themes related to the litanies (ff. 99r-100r), beginning with a litany of all Saints: 'Ut misericordia et pietatis tua nos semper custodiant. Ut ecclesiam tuam sanctam et immaculatam regere et defendare digneris'; ending with the general prayer ( Oratio generalis ) (f. 109v). ff. 109v-187v: Expositio Hymnorum (Hymnal or Book of Hymns), arranged according to the liturgical day and year, beginning: 'Primo dierum omnium'; it includes collects from the Gospels and homilies of St Ambrose and St Gregory. It includes 12th-century neumes from southern France (ff. 127r-287v). ff. 187v-191v: An Old Occitan translation of the Gospel of St John (Chapters 13 to 17), beginning: 'Incipit sermo domini nostri Ihesu Christi quem fecit in cena sua quando pedes lavit discipulis suis. Avan lo dia festal de la Pasca sabia lo Salvadre que la soa ora ve que traspasse s'aquest mun au Paer', ending: 'que la amors per cal tu me amest sia en euz e seu en euz'. ff. 191v-192r: A Benediction in verse, beginning: 'Ineffabilis Dei pietas'. ff. 192r-194r: Alcuin, De Laude Psalmorum , beginning: 'Qui etiam (sic) prophetie non semper eorum mentibus presto est', ending: 'et ad medulam intimam intellectus per dei gratiam perveneris'. Text edited from other manuscripts in Black, 'Psalm Uses in Carolingian Prayerbooks' (2002). f. 194r: Added in a contemporary hand, the canon Si Quis Suadente from the II Lateran Council (1139), also called the privilegium canonis , which states that everyone who laid violent hands upon a clerk or a monk would be excommunicated. ff. 194v-196r: Responsory with slightly later neumes perhaps from northern Italy, imperfect.Decoration:Four damaged full-page miniatures in gold and colours (ff. 13v, 14v, 17r, 18r). Added four full-page miniatures of the Raising of Lazarus, the Assumption of the Virgin, the Baptism of Christ, and the anointing of Christ's feet by Mary Magdalene (ff. 15r, 15v, 16r, 16v), in gold and colours attributed to the Master of 1285, according to Conti, La Miniature Bolognese (1981). Eleven historiated initials in gold and colours, some with foliate and knotwork motifs (ff. 19v, 30r, 36v, 43r, 50r, 58v, 66v, 74v, 77r, 81v, 90v). Numerous initials in red; some with simple penwork decoration. Display script in red, following historiated initials. Simple initials and rubrics in red.
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