The format of bibliotheque nationale ms lat. 8824: The paris psalter

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Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 130-133

  Toswell, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1093/nq/43.2.130     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. For full descriptions see N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957), No. 367
2. Description of the Manuscript' and 'The Handwriting' in The Paris Psalter, ed. B. Colgrave et al., Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, viii (Copenhagen, 1958), 12-14.
3. Descriptive material also appears in J. D. Bruce, The Anglo-Saxon Version of the Book of Psalms commonly known as the 'Paris Psalter' (Baltimore 1894)
4. M. Forster, 'Die altenglischen Texte der Pariser Nationalbibliothek', Englische Studien, Ixii (1927-8), 129-30
5. G.P. Krapp (ed.), The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, V (New York, 1932), vii-xix.
6. For a description focusing on the illustrations see E. Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066 (London, 1976), No. 83, 99-100.
7. The line-drawings are reproduced and described in T. H. Ohlgren, Anglo-Saxon Textual Illustration (Kalamazoo, 1992).
8. The most recent discussion of the manuscript appears in M. J. Toswell 'Studies in the Paris Psalter, metrical version' (unpublished doctoral thesis, Oxford, 1991), ch. 1.
9. For the study of bibliometry in other European manuscripts see for example Carla Bozzolo and Ezio Ornato, Pour une histoire du livre manuscril au moyen age: trois essais de codicologie quantitative (Paris, 1983).
10. See Leopold Delisle, Inventaire des manuscrits latins conserves a la bibliotheque nationale sous les numeros 8823-18613,1 (Paris, 1863).
11. See T. A. M. Bishop, English Caroline Minuscule (Oxford, 1971).
12. J. D. Bruce, Anglo-Saxon Version, 9-12, attempts to identify the scribe with the Wulfwi of the Gospel of St John in British Library MS Cotton Otho C.i.
13. but the objections raised by K. Sisam, 'An Old English Translation of a Letter from Wynfrith to Eadburga (A.D. 716-17) in Cotton MS. Otho C. i.\ Modern Language Review, xviii (1923), 253-72 at 253 are decisive.
14. For further references see Krapp, xiii. The colophon is reproduced in Benedictins du Bouveret, Colophons de Manuscrits Occidentaux des Origines au XVF siecle, V, PZ (Fribourg, Switzerland, 1979), 543-4.
15. See M. B. Parkes, 'The Palaeography of the Parker manuscript of the Chronicle, laws and Sedulius, and historiography at Winchester in the late ninth and tenth centuries', Anglo-Saxon Engtand,\ (1976), 149-71 at 161 and Bishop, xii.
16. See Ker, Catalogue, xxiii-xlii.
17. Recent considerations oT practices in Anglo-Saxon scriptoria include D. Dumville, English Caroline Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism, A.D. 950-1030 (Bury St Edmunds, 1993)
18. which analyses the dissemination of Anglo-Caroline Minuscule in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries; and also his Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England: Four Studies (Bury St Edmunds, 1992)
19. which considers the contents and possible origins of liturgical books in insular centres, concluding with a discussion of the possible existence of house-scriptoria and their links to royal or noble patronage for the copying of these manuscripts. For an extended consideration of a single scriptorium, focusing on a slightly earlier period, see P. W. Conner, Anglo-Saxon Exeter: A Tenth-Century Cultural History (Bury St Edmunds, 1993).
20. L. L. Brownrigg, personal communication, August 1987.
21. See Gisela Guddat-Figge, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Middle English Romances (Munich, 1976), 30-6.
22. M. R. James concerning an early thirteenthcentury copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses measuring 222 X 101 mm (1:2.2) that The tall narrow format of the book is common in copies of Latin poets, intended, as I think, for the use of students, since they could be conveniently carried', Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts in the University Library, Aberdeen (Cambridge, 1932), 56, concerning No 165.
23. J. J. G. Alexander, Insular Manuscripts 6th to the 9th Century (London, 1978).
24. See C. H. Roberts and T. C. Skeat, The Birth of the Codex (London, 1983), 38-44.
25. D. Banham (ed.), Monasteriales Indicia (Langarth, 1991).
26. My comments here are based on my own transcription of the manuscript. For the first detailed analysis of manuscript line-endings see C.-D. Wetzel, Die Worttrennung am Zeilenende in altenglischen Handschriften (Frankfurt, 1981)
27. especially Appendix 1, which points out the problems in word-division in this manuscript. Another text which receives equally poor treatment for word-division in the manuscript may be the Metres ofBoethius (Bodleian Library MS Bodley 180).
28. But see the review article by Angelika Lutz 'Die Worttrennung am Zeilenende in altenglischen Handschriften', Indogermanische Forschungen xc (1985), 227-38
29. 'The Syllabic Basis of Word Division in Old English Manuscripts', English Studies, Ixvii (1986) 193-210.