Sondershausen, Schlossmuseum, Hs Br. 1 Binding strip from a glossed Anglo-Saxon Psalter ("Sondershauser Psalter") With Cambridge, Pembroke College 312 C 1-2 [72] and Haarlem, Stadsbibliotheek [137]

Abstract

466a. Sondershausen, Schlossmuseum, Hs Br. 1

Binding strip from a glossed Anglo-Saxon Psalter

("Sondershauser Psalter")

With Cambridge, Pembroke College 312 C 1-2 [72] and

Haarlem, Stadsbibliotheek [137]

[cf. Ker 79 and Supp. 79; cf. Gneuss 141]

HISTORY: A strip from a single leaf cut down to 300 x 77-100 mm., from a mid-1 lc A-S psalter in the Gallican version and with a continuous interlinear OE gloss, which came to general notice only in 1997 (Pilch). It was taken from a binding but it is not known when or from what book the strip was abstracted. The fragment is kept with several others. It carries two stamps at the bottom of the recto side. The first reads: 'FÜRSTL. SCHWARZBURG. LANDESBIBLIOTHEK SONDERSHAUSEN: which indicates that it belonged to the princes of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. The second stamp reads 'Thiiringische Landesbibliothek', which harbored the princely library after its expropriation in 1918. Pilch (1997: 313) and Gneuss (1998: 274) suggest that the fragment might have come from the collegiate church of Jechaburg, close to Sondershausen in Thuringia. It has fairly recently been crudely repaired with ordinary cellulose tape.