Manuscript: BL Additional 37517

Description (from Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts)

Calendar (s. x/xi) ; Psalteriurn Romanum° ; Canticles° ; Litany (s. x/xi or xi in.) ; Prayers ; Hymnal ; Monastic canticles : s. x3/4, OE glosses s. xi in.; Ordinary and canon of the Mass ; Mass of the Holy Trinity ; part of Office of the Dead : s. x/xi ; whole MS Canterbury (CC?). FC: G. R. Wieland, ed., The Canterbury Hymnal (Toronto, 1982); Korhammer (1976); ASM 2, pp. 3--11.

Current location

Repository
British Library
Town or City
London
Shelfmark
Additional 37517

Other information

Name
Bosworth Psalter
Catalogue Numbers
G. 291
K. 129
Format
Unspecified
Date
Unspecified
Origin
Canterbury , l (Ker 1957: 'prob. CaA'; Ker 1964: ?CaA and ?CaCC; Gneuss: ?CaCC)

Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (G. 291)

Calendar (s. x/xi) ; Psalteriurn Romanum° ; Canticles° ; Litany (s. x/xi or xi in.) ; Prayers ; Hymnal ; Monastic canticles : s. x3/4, OE glosses s. xi in.; Ordinary and canon of the Mass ; Mass of the Holy Trinity ; part of Office of the Dead : s. x/xi ; whole MS Canterbury (CC?). FC: G. R. Wieland, ed., The Canterbury Hymnal (Toronto, 1982); Korhammer (1976); ASM 2, pp. 3--11.

DigiPal Project

Rushforth No. 9.

Dumville, 1991--95: Main MS from s. x2/3, CaCC or Westminster (citing Korhammer 1973: 186--87).

Dumville 1993, p. 100: 'Written under Dunstan's auspices in a monumental Square minuscule' and compares to BN lat.943. [Phase-V Square minuscule]

Ibid., p. 108 (incl. note 129): Describes calendar script as hybrid of Styles I, II, and IV.