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for instance, we have per ieiunium. The liturgical note is often wanting, and 

 occasionally the heading. 



The purpose of the present section is to ascertain, as far as possible, the 

 relation between the rubrics of the Cathaeh (C) and the series in the Codex 

 Amiatinus (A),^ and others of the same general type, those, namely, of the 

 De Psalmorum Libra Exegesis attributed to Bede (B)^ the Paris Anglo-Saxon 

 Psalter (S)^ and the Kai'lsruhe Psalter, Codex Augiensis 107 (E^. 



Thanks to the insight of G. B. de Rossi and the learning of F. J. A. Hort, 

 the story of the origin of A was revealed about thirty years ago.^ It was 

 written, circa 700, either at Wearmouth or at Jairow, and was sent by the 

 Abbot Ceolfrid in 716'^ as a present to the Pope, it is now in the Laurentian 

 Library at Florence. The copy of the Book of Psalms which it contains 

 follows St. Jerome's version according to the Hebrew verity. Let us begin 

 by comparing its rubrics with those of R. 



The Karlsruhe Psalter, which is of the tenth century, and one of the 

 columns of the Bamberg Quadruple Psalter (A. 1. 14 : Lagarde's W), which was 

 written in 909,' contain St. Jerome's rendering from the Hebrew ; and they 

 were co]Died from the same exemplar, presumably of the ninth century. We may 

 call it p. Lagarde tells us that/o is closely related to A; and this statement can 

 be verified by anyone who will undertake the troublesome task of comparing 

 their texts as revealed in the published collations.' But p is not a direct 

 descendant of A; for thougli many of the readings in which the former differs 

 from the latter may be accounted for on that supposition, there remain not 

 a few which cannot be so explained, and which indicate that A and p are 

 derivatives from a common archetype. Thus, for example, in Ps. Ixxxviii 

 (Ixxxix). 29 RW agree with the text of Lagarde in reading custodiam, while 

 A has scruaho. It will be convenient to designate the common ancestor of 

 A and p by the letter a. 



Little as the texts of E, and W differ from each other, the scribe of W 



' Printed in Heyse-Tischendorf. 



^Mifrne, Pat. Lai., xciii. 477 tf. 



^Edited by B. Thorpe, " Libri P.salmorum Versio Antiqua Latina cum paraphra.si 

 Anglo-Saxonica," Oxon., 1835. Psalms i-1 have been re-edited in Bright- Ramsay. This 

 volume exhibits the entire series of rubrics, together with the arguvienta of Bede. 



■* Printed in Lagarde. 



^See H. J. White, "The Codex Amiatinus and its birth-place," in Studia Biblica, ii. 

 273 fif. 



° For the date see Plummer's Bede, ii. .367. 



' So Lagarde and A. Chroust, " Monumenta Palaeographica," Ser. i, Lief, xvi, Taf. 3. 

 But S. Eerger, " Histoire de la Vulgate," 1893, pp. 130, 377, assigns it to the eleventh 

 century. 



^ A is collated with the Vulgate in Heyse-Tischendorf, and RW with St. Jerome's 

 version from the Hebrew in Lagarde. 



