. The Bosworth psalter: an account of a manuscript formerly belonging to O. Turville-Petre, esq. of Bosworth hall, now Addit. ms. 37517 at the British museum;. rist Church booksdrawn up in the thirteenth century by Prior Henry of Estry, andprinted by Dr. Montague James in his Ancient Libraries of Doverand Canterbury has as item 1776, the following: Psaiterium cumhympnario. In itself this may appear a rather indefinite description,but the existence of an early psalter with the full collection ofChurch hymns joined to it, so far as our present knowledgeextends, is unique, and we may safely conje
. The Bosworth psalter: an account of a manuscript formerly belonging to O. Turville-Petre, esq. of Bosworth hall, now Addit. ms. 37517 at the British museum;. rist Church booksdrawn up in the thirteenth century by Prior Henry of Estry, andprinted by Dr. Montague James in his Ancient Libraries of Doverand Canterbury has as item 1776, the following: Psaiterium cumhympnario. In itself this may appear a rather indefinite description,but the existence of an early psalter with the full collection ofChurch hymns joined to it, so far as our present knowledgeextends, is unique, and we may safely conjecture therefore thatthis MS. is the very volume here referred to. Each verse of the psalms has a red initial: and the first versesof the psalms have initial letters executed in soft colours and aboutfour lines in height. The whole writing occupies rather more than12 inches by 7 inches with twenty-five lines to the page. Wherethere are divisions to be made in the psalms, etc., for liturgicalpurposes, as will be subsequently explained, these are indicated byslightly larger initial letters. The hymnal and the canticles which PLATE I Ll mfinepiu! udniTirtit. ESJWWQVITTm:^ .•
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