Expositio psalmorum (Durham)
The Expositio psalmorum (English Durham Cassiodor ) is a manuscript from the 8th century from Northumbria in England . The manuscript contains an abridged version of the work Expositio in psalterium by the ancient author Cassiodorus . It consists of 261 pages and is probably incomplete. The manuscript was probably created around 730 in Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Monastery. It is now in the library of Durham Cathedral .
Cassiodor's original text is an interpretation of the Psalms from theological, ascetic and grammatical aspects. The copy shortens this text and changes it slightly. Beda Venerabilis is assumed to be the author of this editorial . He lived and wrote in Jarrow until 735. The manuscript is divided into three parts, each of which begins with a psalm text (Ps. 1, Ps. 51, Ps. 101). The last two psalms each have a miniature of King David . This is missing for the first part, but it probably also existed. The illustrations show similarities to details on Anglo-Saxon metalworking by Sutton Hoo and in miniatures in the Lindisfarne Gospels (c. 720).
The manuscript is the oldest known copy or adaptation of Cassiodor's text.
literature
- Richard N. Bailey: The Durham Cassiodorus. St Paul's House (Rectory), Jarrow 1979 ( digitized ).
- Carl Nordenfalk: Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting: Book illumination in the British Isles 600-800. George Braziller, New York 1976, ISBN 978-0-8076-0825-8 , pp. 29, 86-87.