The Psalter and Martyrology of Ricemarch

Name: The Psalter and Martyrology of Ricemarch
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By Hugh Jackson Lawlor

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First of 2 vols, see [48]. Ricemarsh or Rhygyfarch the wise, son of Sulien or Sulgenius. His father was Bishop of St Davids in Wales in the years 1072-1078 and 1080-1085. Rhygyfarch himself was a teacher in the school of St Davids, actually sited at Llanbadarn Fawr, The so-called Ricemarsh Psalter [including the martyology], housed as Dublin, Trinity College MS 50, is dated by the editor to c. 1076-1081. The Psalter is Jerome's translation from the Hebrew, and although the text is not reprinted in full in this edition, a collation is given against Domenico Vallarsi's edition, Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi stridonensis presbyteri operanum tomus nonus, Antonio Berno & Giacomo Vallarsi, Verona, 1738, coll. 1159ff, and Paul Anton de Lagarde, Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos Hieronymi, Teubner, Leipzig, 1874. The Martyology us an abbreviated recension of the Hieronymian martyrology and is close to the redaction in the Codex Epternacensis. The poem "The Lament of Ricemarch" is printed in an appendix taken from London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina C.I., fol. 66. The wqhole edition is abundantly furnished with notes. See Kenney, n. 508; BCLL, nn. 31, 32, 123.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 266
Release Date:: 2008-03-17
Publication Date:: 2008-03-01
Publisher:: Henry Bradshaw Society
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1870252306
ISBN13:: 9781870252300
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 380 g
Height:: 140 cm
Width:: 216 cm
Thickness:: 16 cm

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