Rosebery role

Rosebery Rolle is an ornate psalter in Middle English from the 14th or 15th century. It consists of 193 sheets of parchment and contains the Psalms in the translation by Richard Rolle with the odes and a commentary on them. The sheets are 29.3 cm × 19.5 cm and are written in two columns with 40 lines each in Textura and Anglicana script. There are three writers recognizable. There are three ornate initials .

The psalter was probably made in a women's convent in northwest Yorkshire around 1380 . In 1836 it was auctioned from the estate of the Orientalist and Methodist clergyman Adam Clarke . After three other owners, it was bought by then Prime Minister Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery , in 1929 . In 2009 the manuscript was offered at Sotheby’s and acquired by the Green Collection in Oklahoma . In 2017 it will move to the new Museum of the Bible in Washington .

Web links

• Rosebery roll Sotheby's with illustrations
• Rosebery Rolle Schoenberg