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APPENDIX IV. 

 Psalm Headings. 



The following collection of Psalm Headings makes no claim to be even 

 approximately complete. About many manuscripts in Continental, and some 

 in English, libraries, it has proved impossible to get information during the 

 war' ; and even under happier conditions the difficulty of compiling a full 

 list of Psalters containing headings, and of obtaining reliable transcripts of 

 their rubrics, would have been very great. The manuscripts and printed 

 texts of which I have made use, with the symbols by which they are 

 cited, are enumerated above on p. 242 f. I must here make some explanatory 

 remarks. 



For the second Bible of Charles the Bald (P) and for the le Puy Bible (Q), 

 the more important MSS. of the Biblioth^ue Nationale being at present 

 inaccessible, I have had to depend on Ferrand, of whose accuracy 1 have no 

 means of judging. Q, as it seems, was copied from the Bible of Mesmes 

 (Paris, B.N., lat. 9380).- It would, therefore, have been of advantage to 

 consult the latter MS. ; but for the reason just mentioned this could not be 

 done. 1 have not succeeded in ascertaining whether it has psalm headings 

 similar to those of Q, or indeed whether it has, any.' 



Permission had been very kindly given me to have the rubrics of the 

 Blickling Psalter (K) transcribed. But an accident prevented this design 

 from being carried out. Consequently I have been obliged to content myself 

 with a few notes (partly gathered from the New Palaeographical Society's 

 Facsimiles, ser. i, pis. 231, 232), which do little more than prove how great 

 my loss has been. 



Another manuscript of which I could wish to know more is the 



' The Psalter cited by Ferrand as Memm. 2, which I have not succeeded in identify- 

 ing, would seem to have a few headings (e.(/. for Ps. vi), but not a series as complete as 

 those of P and Q. This remark applies also to B.N., lat. 1152, a Psalter of Charles the 

 Bald, cited by Ferrand as Colb. 1339. The Boulogne Psalter, Bibl. Municip. 26 (St. 

 Omer, c. 1000), also has headings, but I know of it only what can be gathered from Pal. 

 Soc, ser. i, pi. 97- There are headings in the ninth-century Psalters, Ziirich Stadtbibl. 

 C. 12 and St. Gall Stadtbibl. 292 ; but the information about them supplied by the fac- 

 similes in A. Merton's Die Buchmalerei in St. Gallen von neunten bis elften Jahrhundert, 

 Leipzig, 1912, Taf. 1, 2, V, is too meagre to be of use. That there are some headings in 

 the Salaberga Psalter (Berlin, Konigliche Bibl., Hamilton M.s. 553 : Roman, North of 

 England, cent, viii early) the New Palaeographical Society Facsimiles, ser. ii, pis. 33-35, 

 prove. But the information given is not sufficient to determine their general character. 



^Berger, p. 171 ff. 



^ It is cited as Memm. 1 by Ferrand, who does not seem to quote any headings from it. 



