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The written space of the psalter is 17x12/13 cm, with 22 long lines
to the page. Prickings for ruling are visible in the outer margins when
whole.
Date: fourteenth century, probably the second quarter, as the
calendar belonging with this psalter would seem to indicate. The scribe
used a one-storied, elongated a, which seems rather an archaism in the
fourteenth century, as well as the usual two-storied form. Rubrics and
verse-initials are written in red. There are 2-line psalm-initials in red,
blue, and yellow; 4-line initials after each group of ten psalms (ps.
111), and 8-line initials at the beginning of the liturgical divisions of
the psalter (ps. 109). The initial of ps. 1 extends over 12 lines, with
interlaced foliageous scroll-work, protruding from a lion’s mouth, on
x x blue ground, in red, blue, and yellow. Of the extant nine
x 9
5 g leaves of this psalter, ff. (5-9) belonged to the same quater-
6 7 nion. See Plates 91-95.
Contents:
F. (l)r, from AM 34 8°: Versicles, Suscipe-prayer
F. (l)v: Ps. 1 - Ps. 2,4 (lac.)
F. (2)rv, from AM 120 8°: Ps. 16,5 - Ps. 17,17 (lac.)
F. (3)rv = Reykjavik Lbs. 60: Ps. 108,22 - Ps. 110-in finem.
Versicles, prayer. Ps. 111,1-3 (lac.)
F. (4)rv = Reykjavik Lbs. 60: Ps. 118,106-144 (lac.)
F. (5)rv, from AM 262 fol.: Ps. 144,20 - Ps. 148,6
F. (6)rv, from AM 262 fol.: Ps. 148,6 - Ps. 150-in finem. Versicles
and three prayers. Canticum. Confitebor tibi... (Is. 12,1-6)
F. (7)rv, from AM 262 fol.: Canticum. Ego dixi... (Is. 38,10-20)
Canticum. Exultauit cor... (1 Reg. 2,1-10)
F. (8)rv, from AM 262 fol.: [Canticum.] Cantemus domino... (Ex.
15,1-19). [Canticum.] Domine audivi avditionem... (Hab. 3,2-19)
F. (9)rv, from AM 477 12°: [Canticum.] Audite celi.. . ad uolan-
dum pullos suos et super eos (Deut. 32,1-11)
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a) Copenhagen MS AM Access. 7d. Psalter VII. Eleven leaves of
vellum. Ff. (1-9) are remnants of the two first quaternions of the