This manuscript contains a decorated Gallican Psalter and Canticles
(ff. 168v-180v), made in England in the mid-11th century. The
Psalter was glossed in Old English in the second half of the 11th
century. This Psalter might be related to fragments/binding strips
of a glossed Psalter in Cambridge, Pembroke College 312 C, no. 1
and 2 and Haarlem, Stadsbibliotheek, 188 F. 53 (see Gretsch,
Intellectual Foundations (1999), p. 18 n. 39). Contents:ff.
1r-168v: The Book of Psalms. ff. 168v-180v: Canticles, imperfect at
the end. Decoration: Large initial with beast-head terminals,
interlace and foliate decoration in pink, orange, yellow, green and
blue (f. 1r). Initial with beasts and foliate decoration in yellow,
white, blue, red, green, pink, and orange (f. 56r). Initial with
beast-head terminals, interlace and foliate decoration in yellow,
green, pink and blue (f. 111v). Initial in purple with blue
decoration (f. 48r). Capitals in green, red and blue (f. 1r).
Initials in red, green blue and sometimes purple throughout.
Rubrics in red throughout.
