The Middle English glossed prose psalter
Subtitle: edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2498
By: by Robert Ray Black and Raymond St-Jacques
Contributors: St.-Jacques, Raymond, editor; Smith, J. J. (Jeremy J.); Magdalene College (University of Cambridge); Bibliothèque nationale de France
Series: Middle English texts -- 45-46; Middle English texts -- 45-46.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783825361280; 9783825361297
Subjects: Psalters; English Interlinear translations; Manuscripts, English (Middle); Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); French Manuscripts; Medieval Manuscripts; Bible; Magdalene College (University of Cambridge)
Other titles: Bible. Psalms. English.; Bible. Psalms. Latin.; Bible. Psalms. French.
Notes: "This edition uses Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2498 as the base manuscript ... [and] includes an edition of the glossed Latin as well as an edition of all of a French exemplar from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fonds français 6260 ... that appears to have influenced the Middle English translators"--Back cover.

Includes an analysis of the language of the manuscripts by Jeremy J. Smith.

Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. [263]-272) and index.

Text of manuscript is Latin with a Middle English translation, and Middle French; introduction and commentaries in English.
Table of contents: title: V. 1. -- Abbreviations ; -- List of figures and plates ; -- Introduction ;; title: The text ;; title: Descriptions of the manuscripts;; title: Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2498 (P);; title: Princeton University, Scheide Library, MS Scheide 143 (S);; title: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 69 (T);; title: London, British Library, MS additional 17376 (A);; title: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fonds franca̦is 6260 (F) ;; title: Language of the manuscripts  -- Jeremy J. Smith;; title: Text P;; title: Text A;; title: Texts S and T;; title: Characteristics of MEGPP;; title: Glosses by substitution and addition;; title: MEGPP as unique;; title: Relation between the Latin and the Middle English ;; title: P as base text ;; title: Stemma ;; title: Characteristics shared among the manuscripts;; title: Illuminations;; title: Numbering of the Psalms and verses;; title: Psalter divisions;; title: Tituli and headings;; title: Other shared characteristics ;; title: Canticles ;; title: Influence of a French text;; title: Word order;; title: Idiosyncratic terms in F used literally by MEGPP;; title: Loan words;; title: Variant and erroneous readings;; title: Glossator;; title: Place of MEGPP among English glossed Psalters;; title: Editorial procedure : Middle English text;; title: Middle English Psalms;; title: Middle English variants -- -- v. 2. -- Introduction to volume 2;; title: Editorial procedure : Latin text;; title: Editorial procedure : French text ;; title: Glossed Latin Psalter verses ;; title: Commentary : Latin verses ;; title: French translation of the glossed prose Psalter ;; title: Commentary : French Psalter ;; title: Commentary on Middle English text ; -- Appendices;; title: Appendix 1 : Manuscript notes to Pepys MS 2498;-- Appendix 2 : Select list of Middle English variants;-- Appendix 3 : Dominus, Deus, Et, Esse ;-- Glossary ;-- Bibliography.