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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 478

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UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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  • MS 478
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Date
  • 1200 - 1299
Language
  • Armenian
  • Latin
Title
  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 478: Armenian Psalter
  • Armenian Psalter
Description

  • Summary: The Armenian psalter, probably dating from the thirteenth century, contained in CCCC MS 478, is one of the most curious items in the collection. Parker was in correspondence with Bishop Davies of St David's and his collaborator, William Salesbury, regarding the language in which the text was written. The list of Parker's books in the Parker Register (CCCC MS 575) is annotated to record that it had been identified as Armenian by William Patten (d. in or after 1598). Patten produced in 1570 a vocabulary and alphabet in Armenian for which he had made use of this psalter. In the middle of the book are three coloured pictures of the Virgin and Child, the Crucifixion, and Christ surrounded by the Evangelist symbols.


    Contents :


    1r-250v - Armenian Psalter

    Note: (1r) rather damaged. Rough ornament at top in blue and yellow

    Note: The incipits of the Psalms are added throughout in Latin in the margin by a hand of cent. xvi early. Many Psalms have rough marginal ornaments at their beginnings

    Note: (21v) After PS. xvii (xviii) Diligam te is a psalm or canticle marked: Non est de psalterio: and one similarly marked closes each division

    Note: On f. 24r at the end of this is a scribble in a hand of cent. xv-xvi and (xvi)

    Note: (24r) Sunt hic octo libri. Et ultimus psalmus in unoquoque libro non est de psalterio

    Note: (24v) blank

    Note: (25r) Book II. Celi enarrant

    Note: (55v) blank

    Note: (56r) Book III. Noli emulari

    Note: (90v) blank

    Note: Proper names are often transliterated in the margin

    Note: (91r) Book IV. Miserere mei deus

    Note: At the end of this book are three full-page (or nearly so) pictures in frames with red and green grounds: yellow, red and green are almost the only colours. They seem to me to be by an European hand and not later than cent. xiii

    Note: (119v) The Virgin crowned, seated, holding up a small fruit. The Child robed in green on her knee

    Note: (120r) The Crucifixion with Mary and John. Sun and Moon above

    Note: (120v) Christ seated in the rainbow, in vesica, with book, blessing. Evangelistic emblems in the spandrels

    Note: (121r) Book V. Quam bonus israel

    Note: (155v) blank

    Note: (156r) Book VI. Domine refugium

    Note: (156r) blank [there appears to be no blank in this section, or before the next book]

    Note: (187v) An obliterated rubric

    Note: (188v) Book VII. Confitemini domino quoniam bonus (CVII)

    Note: (219v) blank

    Note: (220r) Book VIII. Ad dominum cum tribularer

    Note: Ends f. 250v (251)

    Note: Two blank leaves follow (ff. iiir-ivv)

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