Volume / Number: 11 / 1661

CLA	1661
Shelfmarks	New York, N. Y. USA Pierpont Morgan Library M. 776
Script	Anglo-Saxon Majuscule
Date	VIII med (726 - 775)
Origin and Provenance	Written in England, and probably in the South, as script and Canterbury type of decoration suggest. Was in the city of Lincoln in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Later belonged to the Marquess of Lothian, Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Acquired by the Morgan Library in 1932.
CLA Vol.	11
TM Number	TM 67816
Support	Parchment
Contents	Testamentum Vetus (Vetus Latina, Ps 9.9–30, 31–fin.).
Name	Lincoln Psalter.
Script Commentary	Script is calligraphic Anglo-Saxon majuscule by a master scribe: d has two forms, the uncial rather rare; N and n; R and r, the uncial preponderant; S and ꞅ; ligatures of Nꞅ and Uꞅ at line-end. Some contemporary marginalia in Anglo-Saxon majuscule and some in somewhat later minuscule. Interlinear glosses in Anglo-Saxon here and there. Neumes added on foll. 60v, 74, et passim. A thirteenth-century English calendar was entered on the three leaves before fol. 4 and several names, dates, and notes saec. XVII, etc., on other fly-leaves.
Collection	Text: MSS containing biblical text (including Gospels)
Last modified	31 July 2017