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A thirteenth century York Psalter ; a manuscript written and illuminated in the Diocese of York about A. D. 1250

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    Psalter, with collects : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    ff. 1-188v; ff. 189-194v blank. [Psalter]. Latin. Biblical psalter, each psalm proceded by a titulus and followed by collects (here "oratio"); the collects generally agree with the Roman series, except for 12 of the Hispanic series and 27 not precisely identified; collect R74 is copied twice, after Pss. 73 and 74; the collect after Ps. 118, 96 is R11811; after Ps. 118, 153 there are 4 collects. See L. Brou, The Psalter Collects. HBS 83 (London 1949). On ff. 167-177v, canticles; on ff. 177v-181v, Gloria, Credo, Pater noster, Te deum, Quicumque vult; on ff. 181v-187, litany including Germanus, Nicholas and Louis among the confessors; Benedict, Maurus, Placidus, Onuphrius and Leonard among the monks and hermits; Scholastica among the virgins; on ff. 187-188v, added, s. XVII, an index in Italian of the psalms for the office of the Virgin arranged according to the hours of the office, and index of the penitential and gradual psalms with reference to page numbers added to the text leaves by the same person.

    mssHM 1041

  • Book of Hours and Psalter : [manuscript]

    Book of Hours and Psalter : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    ff. 1-199; ff. 199v-200v, blank. [Book of Hours and Psalter]. Latin; French. f. 1, drawing; f. 1v, blank; ff. 2-12, Hours of the Passion; ff. 12v-13v, blank; ff. 14-18, Short Hours of the Cross; f. 18v, blank; ff. 19-26, Hours of the Virgin, Dominican use; ff. 26-35, Psalter of St. Jerome; f. 35v, blank; ff. 36-41v, Calendar; ff. 42-175v, Psalter; ff. 175v-187v, Ferial canticles; ff. 188-192v, Litany; ff. 193-199, Office of the Dead, use of Rome.

    mssEL 9 H 17

  • Missal, use of York : [manuscript]

    Missal, use of York : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    ff. 1-297v. Latin. ff. 1-6v, Graded calendar; ff. 7-8, Holy Water service; ff. 8-137, Temporale; ff. 137-156v, Ordinary and canon of mass; ff. 157-197v, Temporale; ff. 197v-252, Sanctorale; ff. 252-274v, Common of saints; ff. 274v-295v, Votive masses; f. 296r-v, St. Gregory's Trental; f. 296v, Sequence for a martyr; ff. 296v-297v, Catena mainly from John, prayers before and after mass, and the propers for a mass of John of Beverley.

    mssHM 1067

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    Psalter

    Manuscripts

    Two non-consecutive leaves from a psalter written in Italy.

    mssHM 80509