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GRIPLA
U TSALMVS XXVII.
Tt * mensAnhtlat, vultus a.i vultum tuum
InKntuiylcj. reJptctL.:
Ne 9 comie vultm lumen ame atnalilk,
Neurne tntenebris defere^.
Seruum periram nefine opprum tuurn:
b Vitatnýj/funm dtket tibt,
Tuere ab hsfic)&. epericustripe,
OJþss [alutij.vnica.
Me 1 • cari amut,me prcpinqui)Me pater,
Me ILittiia matcr liqueratj:
At rten reLquit ,quipiosin ajperis
Non defint rcbw, Deta.
Tarens “ bemgnc mevtiu docetusu,
l&eUiuJj deducfemita:
Nevis mettisq. ab hofie me deterritum
De callc recit dtitahat^.
Ne1 * me tmptorum obncxtum Itbtdtnt
Relmdftte. Tefies tmpti
Tingunt malignefiilfCde me crimina,
Armantfyfemcndatiu.*
Orm.gcnus xvi.
I>iC=fc
.Alt.
pfesHælÍI
” Pnncef sfitliferii aitior orbtbtu,

Trtneepsfitlhftru alttor crbtbw,
ísalmvs xxrtr.
¥ Mens1 J vitta tantisc iam fatifieret maíis,
Nj JpesfoueretmetUA
Benigmtatú.poft labores anxios
Moxaffuturumgandtti'n.
Viuueqj viuos inter tpfe commoda
Vtta beatA d prttfiolor.
lh 14 rebus ergo turbtdu nc concidtJ,
SeJfortú vfjjfuftinc.
Teroborabtt Dominw, & corfulcieLi:
Tufortu vfifj fufttti e_>.
PSAL.XXVUI. Ad teDmiiiicuniabo, &c.
Cum vLdiíTet Ptophcta wtgius íipc faílum cfle_^»
vt iufto Dcnudiciopii fimuUumimpíisi'upplicioob-
rucrcntur, vidcietquc Cbi in prxícmia cum malis 6c
fraudulcntis hominibus ncgööum efletorat Dcum, vc
eoruin contagio non inficutur.lcd ab hurusmodHo-
cictatc &: coimnerciolib’cretur.atq; itaipfi iöli luoruua
fcaicruin iulhs roenas loant. Sunu! ctiam.qux6c qua-
lu ipforuin pcccata lintj Sr,qux pœnxcatmcconiccu*
tutsoftend I Dcidcmdc benigniraii. quá fiatyt tani
prointc vx luvliaiur. gratias agiti eiusq, patrocinio vui-
ucrfam t.cclcli ini commcndat.
^sIÖéIhíéí^p
Prtneeps fitlhfiru alttor otbtbui,
B.f.lEllfífSlIfflili
frmctfjJhdlf.'rU ttllior .rhibtu,
£ z
The opening of Princeps stelliferís (Psalm 28), from the Buchanan/Olthof psalter.
which no. 29 is “Buchananus gamall uppbundinn” [Old Buchananus, re-
bound].9 Since the young student had borrowed money from Bishop Brynj-
ólfur Sveinsson, the books remained in the Bishop’s possession even though
Gissur Bjamason’s other belongings were sent to his father, the renowned
poet Rev. Bjami Gissurarson of Þingmúli.
Inventories of the Skálholt library were made rather frequently in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These invariably mention a Buchanan
volume owned by the cathedral. As is true of many other volumes found in
these listings, the Buchanan psalter enjoyed a remarkably long shelf-life in the
Skálholt library. It first appears as “Paraphrasis Buccanani” in the 1698
register, and is again recorded in 1722, 1744, 1747, 1754, 1764, and 1785.10
9 AM 281 fol, 11 v; quoted in Jón Helgason, “Bókasafn Brynjólfs biskups,” Árbók
Landsbókasafns íslands 'i-4, 139.
Hörður Ágústsson, “Bækur,” 345. The National and University Library in Reykjavík owns
two copies of the Buchanan psalter, but the provenance of neither can be established. One is
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