272 Troccedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



cases the differences are inconsiderable : Pss. iii, v, xxvii, xxxviii, xlvii, 

 Ixiv, Ixix, Ixxxvii, Ixxxix, xc, xciii, c, cviii, cxii, cxxvii, cxxx, cxxxv, 

 cxliii.' Again, the headings, as distinct from the liturgical notes, in a are in 

 exact agreement with those of B in Pss. vi, xii, xxii, Ixxxv, xcvi, and differ 

 from them but slightly in Pss. viii, xi, xiii — eight times in all.= The rubric 

 of Ps. xli in a is nearly identical with that in B, except that the latter adds 

 at the end some words from the rubric of Ps. xlii, and a lectionary note. 

 B agrees with a in the liturgical notes of Pss. xlv, xlviii (?), xlix, and only 

 diifers slightly in those of Pss. ii, xlii, xliii^ — six cases. Finally, in three 

 instances a seems to have two rubrics for a single psalm, one of which is 

 found in B : Pss. xxix, xxx, 1 ;* and twice elsewhere, in like manner, B has 

 two headings, one of which appears in a : Pss. liii, cxiv.* Thus there are no 

 less than 113 rubrics in a which bear a striking resemblance to those of B. 



But that is not all. The printed text of B is faulty, and in some places 

 it may be corrected with the aid of the Paris Psalter (S). This manuscript 

 contains an Anglo-Saxon translation of the Psalter. Prefixed to each psalm 

 there is usually a Latin rubric and an Anglo-Saxon argumenhtm. Mr. J. D. 

 Bruce^ has established the fact that these rubrics and argumenta are derived 

 for the most part from the Bedan Exegesis. Now it occasionally happens 

 that the Latin rubrics of S differ from the printed text of the corre- 

 sponding argumenta of the Exegesis. This is sometimes due to carelessness, 

 but sometimes also to the use by the compiler of a better text of B than ours. 

 Hence, when S agrees with a against B, as printed, it may be assumed that 

 it gives the genuine text. Some instances of the application of this principle 

 must be given. 



' In Pss. V, cxxvii, the resemblance is closer to A than R ; in Ps. xciii, closer to R than 

 A ; in Pss. xlvii, xciii, cxxxv, 2 agrees exactly with a ; in Pss. c {dequie), cxxvii (ct 

 aeclesia), it difters from it less than the printed text of B. 



- It is uncertain whether in xiii in matthaeo is a liturgical note : it is omitted by a. 

 The lectionary notes are omitted by B in Pss. Ixxxv, xcvi ; elsewhere by a. 



^ I count the words ad eos, &c., in the rubric of Ps. xlii as a liturgical note. In Pss. 

 xliii, xlv, xlix, B omits the heading ; in Ps. xlii, a. In Ps. xliii 2 diifers from a only in 

 spelling (exemologeiim, omitting in). 



^ Ps. xxix. o : Prvpheta ad patrem et ad fiUum dicit de pnschachristifutura ecclesia orat 

 citm laiide. The last four words are in B. Ps. xxx. a : (1) in Jinem psahnus dauid huic 

 fidei confessio credentiiim deum (2) huic dauid uox christi m passione de iiideis dicit. 

 Rubric (2) is from Ps. xxxiv ; (1) is in B, with a variant. Ps. 1. a: (1) legendus ad 

 lectionem esalae prophetae (2) et lectionem actus apostolorum ubi paulus elegitur (3) 110.1: 

 christi pro papula 2Menitente (4) et uox pauli ad paenitentiam. Clauses (2) and (4) are in 

 B, with variants. 



= Ps. liii. oB : uox christi ad patrem. B adds u«l cuiuslibet fidelis auxilium dei contra 

 iiitia Jlfujitantis. Cp. with this addition the heading of Ps. liv in B : fidelis cpdspiam 

 c(mtra uitia carnis et ipsam carnem deprecaiur. Ps. cxiv. o : uox christi est. B omits est, 

 and adds uel cuiuslibet fidelis de temptationibiis erepti. 



« Op. cit., p. 18 ff. 



