The "Whitby" Psalter

Beinecke, MS 712.188

The manuscript is discussed in a blogpost here. Some of the Houghton leaves (online here) are not bound in correct textual sequence. Some leaves have a pencil foliation in the lower right corner; where visible in reproductions they are recorded below.

• Pss. 2:2–3:6 
• Houghton, fol. 2
• Pss. 9:31–17:42
• Houghton, fols. 3–10: 8 leaves, presumably a quire
• Pss. 28:6–29:4 (“|| Et comminuet … lacum ||”) on one side. 
• Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Museum of Art, 1986/2.87 (online)
• Pss. 31:1–32:3
• Houghton, fol. 1
• (fol. __) Pss. 47:12–48:16 
• New Haven, Beinecke Library,  Takamiya, MS 80 (online) (a bifolium with fol. 30)
• (fol. 27) Pss. 49:13–50:8
• Toronto, Thomas Fisher rare Book Library (online) [Added 21 April 2022]
• (fol. 30) Pss. 53:5–54:13
• See above
• (fol. 38) Pss. 63:6–64:12
• University of Notre Dame, Snite Museum, 73.51 (reported by me to Notre Dame in 2015)
• (fol. 47) Pss. 70:22–71:15
• This and the next three leaves: Beinecke Library, MS 712.188 (online) (formerly Stephen Keynes (d. 2017), formerly Esther Rosenbaum, sold at Sotheby’s, 25 May 1985, lot 70)
• (fol. 48) Pss. 71:16–72:13
• See above
• (fol. 52?) Pss. 73:2–73:19
• See above
• (fol. 53?) Pss. 73:19–75:4
• See above
• (fol. 56?) Pss. 77:42–57
• Forthcoming in the Colker sale at Christie's, 12 Dec. 2022
• Pss. 89:15–90:6 on recto (text on verso not known)
• Folio Fine Art, Catalogue 75 (Sept. 1970), no. 256 (ill.); and Maggs, Ancient Mediæval and Modern No. 14, Catalogue 973 (June 1976), no. 160, pl. VII (see image below)
• Pss. 149:7–150:end
• Houghton, fol. 11r
• The six ferial Canticles
• Houghton, fols. 11r–19v
• Te Deum, Benedicite, Benedictus, Magnificat, Nunc dimittis, and Athanasian Creed
• Houghton, fols. 19v–25r
• Litany of the saints
• Houghton, fols. 25r–28r
• Five Collects, of which the second is very unusual: 
• Houghton, fols. 28r–v
• (i) Deus qui proprium est misereri ...
• (ii) Deus multe [recte in te!] sperancium fortitudo ...
• (iii) Protector in te sperancium ... 
• (iv) Deus cui omni cor patet ...
• (v) Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui facis mirabilia ...

Added (19th-century) verses of John Lydgate in English: 

• "How Candelmasse first toke the name"
• Houghton, fols. 29r–31r
• "Lydgate’s commendation of Chaucer"
• Houghton, fol. 31r–v; fol. 32r–v is blank.
• Short verses in English "To our lady", "To the angels", etc.
• Houghton, fol. 33r–v

Maggs, 1976