Cambridge, Pembroke College 312 C 1-2 Two binding strips from a glossed Anglo-Saxon Psalter With Haarlem, Stadsbibliotheek [137] and Sondershausen, Schlossmuseum, Hs Br. 1 [466a]

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72. Cambridge, Pembroke College 312 C 1-2

Two binding strips from a glossed Anglo-Saxon Psalter

With Haarlem, Stadsbibliotheek [137] and

Sondershausen, Schlossmuseum, Hs Br. 1 [466a]

[Ker 79 and Supp. 79; Gneuss 141]

HISTORY: Four fragments, the remains of a mid-1 lc A-S psalter with continuous interlinear OE glosses (gloss siglum "N"; cf. Pulsiano 2001: xxvi), consisting of four parchment strips which were removed from the bindings of unidentified books; two owned by the Library of Pembroke College, Cambridge (henceforth Cl and C2; housed in the Cambridge University Library); one in the Haarlem Stadsbibliotheek ([137] henceforth H); and one in the Sondershausen Schlossmuseum ([466a] henceforth S). The glosses are contemporary with the text, although the writing is smaller. The original psalter manuscript contained the Gallican version, with occasional readings from the Romanum (Derolez 1972: 406-7). Dietz (1968: 275) argues that the OE glossator had an ultimate source in the Roman Psalter becasue 'narrabimus' is glossed by 'ic cype: which clearly points to narrabo, as in the Roman version. Whereas Dietz (1968: 275-76) concludes that the scribe had a West Saxon D-type ("Royal") psalter as his exemplar for the glosses, Derolez (1972: 408) holds that the N exemplar came closest to G, the "Vitellius Psalter:' Gneuss concludes on the basis ofS that N is closest to D but might have influences from another exemplar as well (Gneuss 1998: 278-81).