Thomas Waleys, Expositio super duos nocturnos psalterii (Pss. 1–38); England, s. xiv

Title

Thomas Waleys, Expositio super duos nocturnos psalterii (Pss. 1–38); England, s. xiv

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 39

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiv

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment FHHF

Physical extent

257 leaves, many damaged by damp at the top, preceded by one 18th-century paper flyleaf and one medieval membrane flyleaf and followed by another 18th-century paper flyleaf.

Hands

Anglicana formata by several scribes writing very similar hands, punctuated only by very occasional low and medial points.

Decoration

1: one 6-line and one 2-line blue lombard flourished red on fols. 1r and 2r respectively, both extended into borders. A coat of arms has been excised from the lower border on fol. 1r and may have been duplicated by another in the same position on fol. 2r which appears to be original: see further, History. The decoration otherwise consists of two-line blue lombards flourished red at the beginning of each psalm, red and blue paraphs, red-and-blue running numbers of psalms; lemmata underlined red.

2: red and blue two-line lombards, red and blue paraphs.

Binding

Sewn on five bands. Standard Exeter binding: imple and quite elegant, calf over millboards, the calf bearing blind decoration of a floral type, early 19th century. On the spine is a red leather label with a gold title. Endbands are uncoloured.

Provenance

Unknown. There is a title and price on fol. iiv: ‘Wallensis super duos Nocturnos psalterij. Item tabula super eosdem. Precium istius libri 40 s’, s. xv1.

Recorded at Exeter c. 1600 as Ecloga, no. 25; then in CMA, no. 52.

The coat of arms on fol. 2r is or a plain cross between four lions rampant argent crowned or.

Exeter library identifications are, on the pastedown, ‘P8–8 Gall’, deleted, ‘173–H–4’, ‘Ex. Coll. Oxon’, the book stamp and ‘Coxe Cat. no. xxxix’. On fol. iiv is bookplate 1. On the spine is a round paper label with ‘4’ on it.