A Psalter, with:

Preceded by a calendar, with memorial lines, etc. (fol. 1), and tables. At fol. 121v begin a long series of prayers, one to st. Benedict, which make it clear that the volume was written for the use of a Benedictine monk. It is hardly doubtful that the Abbey was that of Peterborough (stt. Eadburga, Kyneburga, Kyneswitha & Tibba are in the calendar & litany, stt. Peter and Guthlac are doubled in the litany, and stt. Florentinus and Osgitha occur: and also 'Sancta Toua' (of Thorney), and (both in calendar, at Jan. 8, and in litany) 'Sancta Pega' of Croyland and Peakirk. 'Passio sancti Ælfeahi archiepiscopi' (d. 1012: on Apr. 19) is in the original hand. A set of hour-services ('Cursus de Sancta Trinitate'), imperfect after part of Sext, is added in a rather later hand. See Waagen's Art Treasures (1854), iii. 90, Westwood's Anglo-Saxon Miniatures (1868), p. 122.

In the 12th cent. the MS. seems to have reached the Cluniac monastery of st. Pancras at Lewes ('Obiit Lanzo prior de sancto Pancratio', Apr. 1: 'Obiit Hugo Cluniacensis abbas', Apr. 28, etc., with Anselm's obit at Apr. 21).

Two letters from H. Petrie (Apr. 21 & 25, 1829), and notes by John Jackson, F.S.A., J. O. Westwood and E. S. Ffoulkes are at the beginning.

[The calendar contains obits of the family of Edward the Confessor, and I suggest that the MS. was written at or for Ely: see a note by me at the end of the present volume. E.W.B.N.].