Manuscript: BL Cotton Vespasian A.i

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

Introductory texts to the psalms (including SK 10728, 12730); Interpretations of Alleluia, Gloria and Hebrew letters (in Psalm 118); Psalterium Romanum° ; Canticles° ; Three hymns° (SK 15627, 3544, 14234) : s. viii2/4, prob. CaA, OE gloss s. ix (prob. s. ix med.) ; Te Deum° ; Quicum que vult° ; Prayers : s. xi1, Canterbury (CC?), (prov, whole MS CaA).

Current location

Repository
British Library
Town or City
London
Shelfmark
Cotton Vespasian A.i

Other information

Name
Vespasian Psalter
Catalogue Numbers
CLA II.193
G. 381
K. 203
Format
Unspecified
Date
Unspecified
Origin
Canterbury

Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (G. 381)

Introductory texts to the psalms (including SK 10728, 12730); Interpretations of Alleluia, Gloria and Hebrew letters (in Psalm 118); Psalterium Romanum° ; Canticles° ; Three hymns° (SK 15627, 3544, 14234) : s. viii2/4, prob. CaA, OE gloss s. ix (prob. s. ix med.) ; Te Deum° ; Quicum que vult° ; Prayers : s. xi1, Canterbury (CC?), (prov, whole MS CaA).

Gneuss, Addenda and corrigenda to the Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

I now regret that I did not detail all prefatory texts to the psalms (on 2–11v); they are listed and identified in The Vespasian Psalter, ed. David E. Wright, EEMF 14 (Copenhagen, 1967), pp. 48–52 and 93–4; it seems important to note, however, that there are contemporary additions of excerpts from Cassiodorus, Expositio psalmorum, in the Roman psalter in this manuscript (see Wright, ibid).