Volume XIV: The Vespasian Psalter

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Volume XIV: The Vespasian Psalter

This beautiful book ranks among the finest work produced in England in the eighth century and has the added interest that it is believed, with good reason, to have been written at St Augustine’s, Canterbury, and to have remained there until the dissolution in 1538. It is a psalter of the Roman version, with canticles and hymns, written in uncial script of remarkable quality. There are also prolegomena in rustic capitals. Its painted decoration, some of which will be reproduced in colour, includes a full-page illustration of David and his entourage, several incipits and a great many initials. The inter-linear glosses provide vital evidence for the Mercian dialect in the ninth century.

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12-140 Latin Psalter with a continuous gloss in Old English, added in the 9th century.

142-152 Nine canticles

152-154 Hymns