Oxford Psalter

The Oxford Psalter (manuscript Douce 320 Bodleian Library, Oxford) is a 12th century Psalter written in Anglo-Norman Old French. Its content is almost identical to that of the Winchester Psalter, except the latter is written in Latin and Anglo-Norman Old French. In his book Libri Psalmorum versio antiqua Gallica e cod. ms. in Bibl. Bodleiana, Francisque Michel does a full transcription of the Psalter, writing the Winchester Psalter variants in the footnotes under the header Cott. Cod. (Cotton Codex; the shelfmark of the Winchester Psalter is British Library Cotton MS. Nero C.iv).

Digital Bodleian estimates the manuscript to be from 1140-50, while the Trésor de langue française informatisé in its etymologies uses 'first half of the 12th century'.^[1][2][3] The Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français gives a date of 'mid-12th century' for both the Oxford and the Winchester Psalter.^[4]

Modern editions[]

• Francisque Michel, Libri Psalmorum versio antiqua Gallica e cod. ms. in Bibl. Bodleiana. 1860. Available on Google Books.
• , The Oxford Psalter (Bodleian MS Douce 320). Oxford: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2015. ISBN 0-905474-61-9.

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External links[]

• first page of the psalter on Digital Bodleian.