Psalter ('The Leofric Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Description
This manuscript contains a Psalter (ff. 8r-123v) that was written
by scribes who also produced manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop
of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072 (see Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Litanies of
the Saints (1991) no. 23). The manuscript also includes a
12th-century Kalendar with many later additions. Contents:ff.
1r-6v: Kalendar with numerous added obits in margins, written in
the 12th century. f. 7v: Anonymous, verses about a miracle
performed at Exeter. The heading 'In festo reliquarum Exoniensis
ecclesie ad processionem' is a slightly later addition. The verses
are preceded by an extract of the Pictor in Carmine written by the
scribe who wrote the previous heading. ff. 8r-108v: The Gallican
version of the Psalms with Canticles with a continuous interlinear
Old English gloss to the Canticle 'Quicumque vult' (ff. 107r-v).ff.
108v-111v: Litany, for the use of Exeter.ff. 111v-123v: Prayers
followed by offices with neumes response.The manuscript contains a
later addition:f. 7r: Anonymous verses on the Calendar written in a
13th-century hand including a later note in margin dated to
1341.Decoration:Large 'KL' letters in red, blue, and green, with
penwork decoration. Small initials in red, blue, green, or brown
(ff. 1r-7v).Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated
line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials,
for Psalm 1 filled in with a 12th-century added puzzle initial and
rubrics in brown and red (ff. 8r-123v).
