Psalter with gloss — 12th century, second half (before 1157 (?)); English, Worcester (?)

Title

Psalter with gloss — 12th century, second half (before 1157 (?)); English, Worcester (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 862

Place of origin

English, Worcester (?)

Date

12th century, second half (before 1157 (?))

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

2 + 202 + 1 medieval folios

Hands

Gloss and text in different hands: the former regarded by Thomson as French, the latter as English (R. Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey 1066–1235 (1982), I.96).

Decoration

Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 228, pl. XXIII) Attributed to the Simon Master (Thomson, op. cit.).

Coloured initials.

Rubrics

Binding

Boards, period 3 (c. 1230–1500), covered with black velvet (16th century) with brass clasp and corner pieces.

Acquisition

Presented by him in 1604.

Provenance

psalterium Johannis de pagaham , fol. v, 12th century (Watson) or c. 1300 (Pächt and Alexander): identified by Watson and others as John de Pagham, bishop of Worcester 1151–7, although some scholars have rejected the identification and argued for a later date for the manuscript (Carley, ‘Sir Thomas Bodley's library and its acquisitions’, 371; cf. Ker, MLGB).

Worcester Cathedral Priory: 14th-century Worcester litany, fols. 201v-202v.

Worcester Cathedral Priory: Liber monasterij Wygnorie, fol. 1, fifteenth century (Watson) or sixteenth century (Ker, MLGB).

Henry VIII: evidence of the binding.

Charles Howard, earl of Nottingham.