Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 468: Psalter (Latin and Greek)

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Summary: The psalter in CCCC MS 468, dating to c. 1250, has parallel Latin-Greek text, although the Greek is written in Latin script. It contains a calendar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ramsey and probably belonged to the prior, Gregory of Huntingdon (fl. c. 1290). On the front flyleaf are the cipher characters of a Greek system of numbers brought back from Greece by John of Basingstoke, archdeacon of Leicester (d. 1252). The book also contains a section of verses concerned with prognostics, proverbs and the world of nature.
Contents: List of Greek prepositions -- Miscellaneous verses and prognostics -- Kalendar of Ramsey Abbey -- Psalter in Latin and Greek. Litany (fragment)

Description

Alternative title	Psalterium Latino-Graecum
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 10 + 158
Date created	[ca. 1275 - 1299]
Language	Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600); Greek, Modern (1453- )
Material	Vellum
Layout	double columns of 30 lines
Height (mm)	153
Width (mm)	113
Collation	1 flyleaf, a(8) (+1) \| 1(10) (7 canc.) 2(8)-9(8) 10(12) 11(8)-18(8) (+4*) 19(8).
Writing	in a very good small hand
Foliation	ff. a + i-x + 1-158 + b-c
Provenance	On f. iir (xiii-xiv): psalterium grecum prioris (erased) Gregorii., I have elsewhere (Sources, p. 10) shewn that this is the Psalter of Gregory of Huntingdon, Prior of Ramsey (fl. cir. 1250). It is named among his books in the fragmentary catalogue of Ramsey library, printed in Chron. Abb. Ramesiensis (Rolls, p. 365). He possessed two Greek Psalters besides a good many Hebrew books.
Additions	f. ir is blank: on f. iv a diagram of a method of writing numerals, which results in the following series of characters, written separately on R.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xiii late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rn426ck5240/MS_468.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fr688hb0930/468.pdf
Contains	Title List of Greek prepositions. iiv-iiiv Note (iiv) In a hand of cent. xiii late, a list of Greek prepositions and their meanings Incipit (iiv) apo longitudinem. unde apologus dicitur ab apo quod est longe et logos sermo priuacionem. unde apocalipsis ab apo quod est de et calipsos uelacio Note The other prepositions are: ypo, yper, epi, peri, para, chata, meta, dia, ana, anti, amphi ypres prope. ex hoc ut quidam dicunt dicitur interpres. en, sin, pros Title Miscellaneous verses and prognostics. ivr-xv Note In a different and thicker hand (ivr) a. Incipit (ivr) In principio creauit deus ... faciem abissi Explicit (ivr) propter hoc fecit deus duo luminaria ... Circulus lune constat ex xix annis. Circulus autem solis ex xx octo annis Note (ivr) b. Miscellaneous verses Incipit (ivr) Cultor erat gratus bene degens fiat amatus Note On numbers, kalendar, compotus Note Incipit (viv) Sciendum quod dies dicitur dupliciter Note (viir) c. Change of hand. Prognostics of Esdras Incipit (viir) Signum quod ostendit dominus hesdre prophete ut ostenderet filiis hominum. kal. ianuarii si fuerint die dominico hyemps bona erit Note See Tischendorf, Apoc. Apocr. and Mercati, Studi e testi 5 (1901), p. 74 for other texts Incipit (viir) Olim dictum erat in gallia quod spiritus nequam de iiii filiis regis Hnr II taliter creditur prophetasse. li plus beus a martheus. li marchis a paris. li peteuin a limozin. li sanztere mora en bere Hnr. gaufridus. Ricard. Iohannes Note (Much corrected by the original hand) (viiv) d. Verses on trees (11) Incipit (viiv) Fraxinus et corulus planus et salix acer ornus Explicit (viiv) Fucus auellana glans nux castanea barra Note (viiv) e. On avarice Incipit (viiv) Captiuata largitas longe relegaturExulansque probitas misere fugatur Dum uirtuti prauitas praue nouercatur Imperat cupiditas atque principatur Explicit (viiir) Redimuntur scelera mediante precioCuius offert dextera mundus abit uicioEt euadit aspera et expirat ulcioSic excusant munera quos accusat accio Note (viiir) f. Prognostics of thunder according to the zodiacal signs Incipit (viiir) Accedens quicunque cupis cognoscere uerbaLucida laudanda uera probata bona Note Ends Explicit (xr) Esto memor quod si tonitrum duo signa ministratIudicium primum non feret immo sequens Note (xr) g. Proverbial verses Incipit (xr) Cui satis est quod habet satis illum constat habere Note On f. xv in a large hand Incipit (xv) Aspiciens. ueterem. circum. quasi. quis. benedicta Note (xv) h. Hand of cent. xvi Rubric (xv) Noys sermo ad hominem Note (22 lines) Incipit (xv) Sensilis hic mundus mundi melioris ymagoVt plenus plenis partibus esse queat Explicit (xv) Vt indeflexos leges celique meatusExemplar uite possit habere sue Title Kalendar of Ramsey Abbey. 1r-9v Note The main hand begins Kalendar in red, blue and black JanuaryMaurus red, Wulstan blue February 28. Osuualdi archiepiscopi blue March Cuthbert red. Erasures (red) on 29 and 31 April 11. Guthlacii red 19. Ælphegii archiepiscopi martyris red 24. Inuentio Sancti yuonis archiepiscopi blue May Dunstan red, Augustine blue June 10. Translatio Sancti yuonis archiepiscopi blue, with octave 23. Etheldrede xii lectiones 30. Marcialis episcopi July 17. Kenelmi regis in red 31. Neoti abbatis et Germani episcopi red September 10. Eguuini episcopi red 16. egithe Virginis (!) 22. Dedicatio ecclesie Ram(esie) blue October 8. Translatio Sancti Osuualdi blue 17. Æthelredi et æthelbricti blue November 16. Ædmundi Confessoris red 17. Hugonis episcopi blue 20. Ædmundi Regis martyris red December 4. Tumulatio Sancti Benedicti red ff. 7r-9v blank Title Psalter in Latin and Greek. Litany (fragment). 10r-158v Nasmith Psalterium Latino-Graecum, viz. Latinum ex una parte paginae, ex altera Graecum literis Latinis scriptum. 10r-158v James Psalter in Latin (Gallican version), and Greek in Latin letters. 10r-158v Note Psalmus primus sic incipit: Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum, et in via peccatorum non stetit, et iin cathedra pestilentiae non sedit Macharios anir os ku keporeutihi en buli asebon ke en odo amartholon uc esti ke epi cathedran limon uck eka- thisen I give as a specimen Ps. iii (11r) It will be seen that the Greek contains a good many mistakes (18r) In Ps. xiii the verses Sepulcrum patens-ante oculos eorum have no equivalent in the Greek Titles are in Latin only On and after ff. 81v, 82r the two inner columns are every now and then given to the Greek and the two outer to the Latin. This is not continuous. Sometimes the Latin and Greek change places irregularly: after about f. 100r the old arrangement is resumed At Ps. cx (cxi) is the note: alfabetum hebreum. quere super hunc locum in triplici psalterio The lower part of f. 125v is blank, without defect in the text. On f. 126v a blank is left and the latter half of Ps. cxviii (cxix) Jod (manus tuae fecerunt me) is wanting After f. 145v is an inserted leaf in the same hand but larger script (f. 146r-146v), containing a supply of an omission on f. 146r Ps. cli Pusillus eram follows on f. 146v At the end, in the Greek column Rubric (147v) exelipon i psalmi dauid tu basileos. Expl. psalmi dauid regis (147v) Incipiunt cantica Note Asma ysaye profite. Cant. Ezechie, Anne, Moysi (1), Abbacuc, Moysi (2), Benedicite, Benedictus, Magnificat, Nunc dimittis, Pater noster, Credo (printed by Ussher, De Symbolis, Opera VII 307, 8) Ending Explicit (158v) Vitam eternam. Amen. Zoin eonion amin Note Litany, in Latin only, in two columns. Apostles: Marcialis. Martyrs: Stephane, Clemens, Syxte, Dionisii cum sociis Thoma Nigasi cum sociis, Gereon. cum sociis ending here imperfectly
TJames	179
Stanley	N. 15
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/sw561ph9670
Location	MS 468
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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