LawLiOR — The Cathach of St. Columha. 43tJ 



influenced by a manuscript of the D type (Ps. Ixxx), and ten times F 

 deserts ^ to follow the N type (Pss. xxxvi, xlvii, Ivii, Ixxxii, Ixxxvi, Ixxxix, 

 xc, xciv, xcv, xcvi).* Another descendant of <^ seems to be G. This is 

 sufficiently clear from an examination of the headings of Pss. xxxi.Ji, lii, ci, 

 cix, cxviii, and cxviii heth recorded in Table I. 



If the existence of this 4> group be admitted, it is easy to show that P is. 

 closely related to 0. In the majority of cases in which they can be compared 

 they appear to be identical or nearly so (about 50 times) ; in 22 readings 

 either <t> (Pss. xviii, Ixxxii, Ixxxvii, Ixxxix, c, ci, cxii) or P (Pss. xxvui, xxxvii, 

 xliii, xlvi, xlix, lii, Ixiv, Ixxiv, Ixxxiii, Ixxxiv, xcix, cvi, cxli, cxliii, el) seems 

 to have abridged a common source. In several headings (Pss. Ixxviii^ 

 Ixxix, xcv, and perhaps 1) <^ is in company with D. 



It has been shown (see p. 272) that S is, in the main, derived from the 

 Bedan Argumenta ; and a similar argument leads to the same conclusion in 

 the case of L-. There is some evidence in each of indebtedness to other 

 sources. S occasionally sides with <j) against B (Pss. Ixxxi, Ixxxiv, cxii, cxvii, 

 cxviii, cxxxl and once or twice with D (Ps. cxxxix ; cp. Pss. cxvii, cxxx). L- 

 is once with jST (Ps. xxvi). 



It is impossible to assign TZ to any group, though they seem to be akin 

 to <f> (Pss. xxxiii, liii, lix, Ixxvii, Ixxviii, Ixxx, cviii). But that they are 

 allied to each other and indebted to Bede seems to be proved by their 

 heading for Ps. lii, u. ezechiae de rapsace. This must have come from the- 

 Theodorean tradition on which the Bedan Argumenta are based. No such 

 clause, it is true, occurs in them. But in the arguments of Pss. li, lii, liii, we 

 find respectively contra uerla rapsacis cantatimi intelligi, et hie psalmus 

 rapisacen percutit, and. ex persona ezechiae oisessi potest intelligi. These phrases 

 no doubt suggested the heading of Ps. lii in TZ. The obvious conclusion is- 

 that, at least in this place, T and Z borrowed from Bede through the same 

 channel. 



In addition, then, to certain sets of headings in whole or in part derived 

 from Bede — viz. LSTZ — we have discovered some groups which have no 

 such indication of later date : a (AE) ; (f> (FGHQ) P; B. The first and third 

 of these are clearly Northumbrian. What can be said as to the pi'ovenance 

 of the second ? I do not know that FH make any direct contribution to the 

 solution of this problem. But there seems to be no doubt that P and Q show 

 marks of a Northumbrian strain in their ancestry. M. Berger writes that 



* All these headings are found substantially in the divisio psalmorwm of Cassiodorus, 

 and all but one (xlvii) in the expkmationes of Bede. But a comparison of these with F 

 and N shows clearly that F borrowed them from Cassiodorus through a text similar to 

 that of N. 



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