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Psalterium — Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin and St Benedict.


Provenance: Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin and St Benedict.
Location: Abbey of St Paul, Lavantal, Austria
Shelfmark: xxv.2.19
Author/Title: Psalterium
Type of evidence: lc: evidence from liturgical detail and from contents
Date: s. xiv in.
Ownership:

S. Blasien (Bavaria).

At foot of last page of calendar is 'Grafham honoretur' (? W. de Grafham who gave a psalter to Ramsey and was cellarer in 1297: v. Macray, Chron. Abb. Ram., p. 357, and Cart. mon. de Ramsey, 1. 64.

Notes:

New York, Pierpont Morgan 302 was part of the St Paul-in-Lavantal MS.

See Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der illuminierten Hss. Österreichs, 3. 83–89.

The calendar entries suggest a date soon after the death of abbot William of Godmanchester (d. 1285).