Krapp George Philip (ed.). The Paris Psalter and the Metres of Boethius

New York: Columbia University Press, 1932. — 239 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-Saxon World).The most extensive collection of Anglo-Saxon metrical translations of the Psalms is contained in the manuscript commonly known as the Paris Psalter. This manuscript is preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its catalogue number being Fonds Latin 8824. It is a carefully planned and well executed volume, and is indeed a graceful example of medieval bookmaking. The manuscript contains 186 parchment leaves, of somewhat unusual shape, approximately 53.5 centimeters high and 18 centimeters wide, that is, 21⅛ inches high and 7⅛ inches wide. The folios of the manuscript are now numbered in arabic numerals on the upper right corner of the recto of each folio in a modern hand from 1 to 186. On a number of the folios an older numbering, also in arabic numerals, is visible, in an earlier but modern hand, from 1 to 196.
The surviving Anglo-Saxon versions of the De Consolatione Philosophiae of Boethius are contained in two parchment manuscripts, MS. Cotton Otho A.vi, in the British Museum, dating from the second half of the tenth century, and MS. Bodley 180, in the Bodleian Library, dating from the beginning of the twelfth century, and in a paper transcript, MS. Junius 12, in the Bodleian Library, made from the two parchment manuscripts by Franciscus Junius in the latter part of the seventeenth century.