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eydilagt’. The initials of the psalms, he says, were of the ordinary kind,
except where great initials usually occur (at the liturgical divisions of
the psalter); ‘semigrandes appellare possum ps. 11, 31, 61, 71, 81,
121, 141, 143’.
His excerpts from the psalter include the opening versicles with the
Suscipe-prayer, and the versicles with prayers after each group of ten
psalms. Those following upon ps. 40, 90, 110, 130, were missing.
‘Sequuntur Cantica, quæ psalteriis subnecti solent.’
D
Copenhagen MS AM Access. 7d. Psalter VIII. Eighteen leaves of
vellum. They are the remnants of five quaternions of the manuscript:
Nearly all the leaves have been trimmed, some of them with loss of
text. The written space measures 14x9 cm, with 21 long lines to the
page. Prickings for ruling are visible in the untrimmed outer margins.
Date: the last quarter of the twelfth century. The script does not
exhibit any of the distinctively Icelandic writing habits. Rubrics are in
red; the verse-initials are written in red and blue, altemately. The
ordinary psalms have 3-line initials. The 7-line initial of ps. 97, in
scroll-work on blue ground, marks the liturgical division of the psalter;
the equally 7-line initial of ps. 101, on red ground with gold, the
division by tiers of fifty psalms.
D, a psalter of foreign origin, has become a member of the Pater
Noster Psalter family by adoption. The versicles and the prayers of the
latter have been added in the outer margins by a late-medieval hånd.
See Plates 100-103.
Contents:
F. (l)rv, from AM 437 4°: Ps. 48,16 - Ps. 49,17
F. (2)rv, from AM 459 4°: Ps. 49,17 - Ps. 50,15; versicles and three
prayers added in the outer margin of f. (2)v, with only the beginning of
the third prayer visible (lac. of two leaves)
F. (3)rv, from AM 459 4°: Ps. 54,8 - Ps. 55,3