Catalogue of Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library John Hodgson Cataloguer Joanne Edge The University of Manchester Library 2018
The John Rylands Library 150 Deansgate Manchester M3 3EH The John Rylands Library uml.special-collections@manchester.ac.uk
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Modern pencil foliation at the start of each quire.

Quire 18 Quire 28 (wants 1) Quires 3-248 Quire 254 Quire 262

2 columns, 48 lines

Written in a gothic hand by two scribes.

The psalms which begin Nocturnes or fifties have decorative initials: 37r, 58v, 76v, 99r, 122v, 142v, 144v, 161r.

The front cover is plated with gilt metal. It is thus arranged. The border is composed of six oblong plates of enamel (at the corners and in the middle of the sides) bearing decorative designs: the intervals between these are occupied by six longer strips of filagree work, each of which is set with four stones. The central plate of gilt metal has an incised design of foliage partially surrounding a crucifix. The figure on the cross is in relief, crowned, with loin-cloth, and is fastened by four nails. The cross is set with small turquoises. The head (bearded) inclines to L. The title of the cross bears the letters IHS: above it is the Divine Hand. The interior angles of the cross are filled in, so that there is a disk at the intersection. The field or body of the cross is enamelled. At each extremity are two stones; two more are on the right of the lower part of the cross, and one is opposite to them on the left. Nail holes (seven in number) are in various parts of the field. At the angles of the panel are four disks of enamelled metal, bearing decorative designs. The second cover is of wood, covered with green-brown velvet.

First quarter of the 13th century.

Germany , 12th century

The Cistercian Abbey of Himmerod, Germany (founded 1134): marginal note: 'Liber monachorum Sancte Marie in hunnerode ordinis Cisterciensis, Treuerensis diocesis' (f. 104v).

Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913)James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector: bought from Boone, Thomas (b. c. 1795, d. c. 1870)Thomas Boone, 1795-1870, bookseller of New Bond Street for £80, October 1861 (Crawford Library Letters, July-Dec. 1861, nos. 226, 277-78; Crawford Library Receipts, 1856-62, no. 1061).

Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library in 1908.

 Description based on M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (München, 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.

The manuscript is available for consultation by any accredited reader.

 Library of Congress Subject Headings Theology Bible. Psalms. Latin--Criticism, Textual Joanne Edge. Joanne Edge.