Hi Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Golden Psalter of Dagulf (G), whieli was presented ty Charlemagne to Pope 

 Hadi-ian I, and was, therefore, written not later than 795. The published 

 facsimiles' exhibit six headings, which are included in the following table, 

 and prove that Ps. i had no heading. 



The headings (or argumenta) of the MSS. which I designate as DNO differ 

 greatly from each other and from those of my other authorities, and they are 

 of considerable length. I have, therefore, not referred to them except where 

 they display likeness in matter or form to those of other manuscripts ; and 

 frequently quotations from them have been restricted to a few words, the 

 omitted portions being indicated by dots or by the symbol "&c." N, as Mr. K. 

 Sisam tells me, is the best representative of a group of three, of which the 

 other members are the Salisbury Psalter (Salisbury Cathedral 150, written for 

 Beading, c. 975) and the Bodleian lis., Ashm. 1525 (c. 1200, St. Augustine's, 

 Canterbury, rubrics much corrupted). I have not considered it necessary to 

 collate the latter two. 



The Southampton Psalter (S) has only been cited where it differs from 

 B. And here it may be observed that the symbol B in the tables indicates 

 only the clauses of the printed text of Bede's Argumenta which contain 

 mystical interpretations (those marked h in Bright-Eamsay). Thus it often 

 happens that a heading of L' or S is quoted, which is derived from the 

 Argumenta, though B is recorded as having nothing. 



The reader must be warned that, owing to the difficulty under whicli I 

 have worked, I cannot always be sure that where I have printed the word 

 nil after the symbol of a MS. it had no heading. Its rubric may be mutilated 

 or illegible at the place. This applies especially to P and Q. 



For the sake of clearness I have given the litursrical notes — or what seem 

 to be such— and the headings proper in separate tables. The spelling of the 

 MSS. has not been rigidly adhered to. 



Table I. — Headings. 



Ps. i. ARS : de {pm. S) ioseph dicit qui corpus christi idomini Si sepeliuit. D : 

 psalmus ad christi personam pertinet ipse est enim perfectus qui numquam abiit 

 in consilio. BEFGHLMNOPQTZ nil. CK hiant. 



Ps. ii. A : u. patris et apostolorum et christi ad caput scribeudum. R : u. p. 

 ad Christum et a. et ch. ad c. s. increpatio potestatum. B: christus de passione 



' Chroust, Monamenta Palaeographica, ser. i, Bd. ii. Lief, xi, Taf. 4 ; R. Beer, 

 Monumenta Palaeographica "Vindobonensia, vol. i ; Silrestre, Paleographie Universelle, 

 ed. Sir F. Madden, London, 1850, pi. 122. Berger (p. 276) has rejected, and SUvestre, 

 Chroust, Beer, and Lindsay (Notae Latinae, p. 492) have thought unworthy of mention, 

 the view once held by the custodians of the MS., that it was sent by Charles the Bald 

 to Pope Hadrian II. (See A. C. Swainson, The Nicene and Apostles' Creeds, 

 pp. 199, 373.) 



