Janus: Transcript of Sailsbury Cathedral Library MS 150, fos 138v-52r

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Transcript of Sailsbury Cathedral Library MS 150, fos 138v-52r

Title	Transcript of Sailsbury Cathedral Library MS 150, fos 138v-52r
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.2777
Creator	Elstob, Elizabeth, 1683-1756
Covering Dates	1708
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

(fo. 1) list of contents in hand of W. W. Skeat; (fo. 2) title page with date of transcript; (fo. 3) Canticum Esaiae; (fo. 6) Canticum Ezechiae; (fo. 12) Canticum Moysi; (fo. 22) Canticum Abbacuc; (fo. 33) Canticum in Deuteronomio; (fo. 56) Benedicite; (fo. 63) Te Deum; (fo. 70) Canticum Annae; (fo. 75) Magnificat; (fo. 78) Benedictus; (fo. 82) Nunc Dimittis; (fo. 84) Gloria in Excelsis; (fo. 87) Lord's Prayer; (fo. 89) Apostles' Creed; (fo. 92) Athanasian Creed. Several fos blank.

Transcript copies script and illumination of original.

On the opening flyleaf is the following in the hand of W. W. Skeat: 'Bought of A. Russell Smith [bookseller], 1885: by W. W. Skeat & presented to the Camb. Univ. Liby 1886.'

Access and Use

In English and Latin

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Transcript of Sailsbury Cathedral Library MS 150, fos 138v-52r, MS Add.2777

Further information

For the Salisbury MS see Catalogue of the Library of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1880), p. 29, and N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (1957), pp. 449-51, which also refers to the Elstob transcript.

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