Psalter with Monastic Collects and Commentary from De titulis psalmorum; Italy, Umbro-Lazian region, Rome (?), late 11th century–early 12th century

Title

Psalter with Monastic Collects and Commentary from De titulis psalmorum; Italy, Umbro-Lazian region, Rome (?), late 11th century–early 12th century

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 88

Place of origin

Italian, Umbro-Latian region , Rome (?)

Date

11th century, late – 12th century, early

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment; paper fly-leaves contemporary with the binding

Physical extent

258 leaves

Hands

Caroline minuscule, similar to that of St Cecilia’s, Rome (as in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Add. D. 104), brown ink. Calendarial martyrology (fols. 22v–30r) is in light brown ink, in a different contemporary hand. Psalms are often, though not always, in a bigger script than the titles, explications and collects

Decoration

Almost full-page Beatus-initial (fol. 46r); 3- to 5-line white-vine initials at the beginning of Prol. Ps. 10 (fol. 1r), prefatory materials (fol. 31r), psalms 20 (fol. 65v), 26 (fol. 71v), 32 (fol. 78r), 45 (fol. 95v), 59 (fol. 111v), 68 (fol. 121r), 72 (fol. 127v), 73 (fol. 129r), 85 (fol. 144v), 90 (fol. 152r), 101 (fol. 162r), 109 (fol. 175v), 113 (fol. 179r), 118 (fol. 183v), 118: 33 (fol. 185v), 118: 81 (fol. 188v), 118: 121 (fol. 191v), 118: 129 (fol. 192r), 119 (fol. 196r), 134 (fol. 206r), 138 (fol. 209v), Athanasian Creed (fol. 233r) and Lamentum (fol. 247r).

1- to 2-line decorated and plain initials at the beginnings of prefaces, explications, psalms, collects, canticles and prayers.

1-line plain red initials at the beginnings of periods and verses.

Rubrics in red; Greek words and letters highlighted in red and yellow on fols. 1r–22v

Musical notation

Neums (see van Dijk 1957).

Binding

Light brown diced calf over wood boards with an inside bend (archaizing style (?)); one of the standard Canonici styles, Italian, 18th century. Blind and gilt roll decoration round the outer edge of both covers. Five raised bands on spine. Spine label with gilt lettering: ‘S. HIER. IN PSALM | LITAN. SS. ET | S. ISID. PLANCT [?] || COD. MEMB. SÆC. X[I?]’. The remains of the Bodleian paper labels on spine. Marbled pastedowns. Edges of textblock tinted yellow.

Acquisition

Bodleian Library: bought in 1817 from Canonici’s nephew Giovanni Perissinotti.

Provenance

Possibly made in Rome for a monastery or a church dedicated to St Lawrence (but this may not apply to calendarial martyrology): liturgical evidence, evidence of script and decoration.

Notes, corrections and additions in a 15th-century humanistic Italian hand.

Short description of the contents of the manuscript in Latin on fol. ii recto in an Italian, 18th-century hand (?), but not the hand of Canonici or any of the earlier owners and librarians whose handwriting is illustrated in Mitchell (1969). Similar descriptions in the same hand are also found in MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 42, MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 85, MS. Add. D. 47, MS. Canon. Liturg. 105, MS. Canon. Liturg. 155, MS. Canon. Liturg. 377, MS. Canon. Liturg. 393.

Matteo Luigi Canonici of Venice (1727–c. 1806), but not from the libraries of Soranzo or Trevisan.

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

Psalter with commentary from Ps.-Bede, De titulis psalmorum

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 88

Date

11th century, late-12th century, early

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume