Seal. 8 (Or. 4725). 235 X 170 (Hebrew text: 160 X 60, frequent exceptions; Latin glosses : 200 X 142), 22 lines of Hebrew text. Lines and columns drawn with a plummet; prickings in outer margins. Quires were originally indicated by Roman numerals, not visible after the 5th quire; also by Arabic numerals, swiftly written in lead pencil: 6IV(48) V(58). The margins of fols. l a -18 a are occupied by 80 (or fewer) lines of Latin text, the lines being drawn with the same plummet. This Latin hand also appears on fols. 18 b (upper margin), 24 b (lower margin), 25 a (upper margin) and 56 a and is dated by Lieftinck as mid-12th cent. English. Another Latin hand appears on fol. 27 b (outer margin). Latin headings occur at the beginning of the Psalms. They are written with a pen as well as with the plummet. At the outer edge of the margins the numbers of the Psalms (Hebrew fashion, later hand) and directions for illustrator and rubricator are visible. Notes in a genuine (Jewish) Hebrew hand appear on fols. 20 b and 26 a (Ps. 53,2 : n?'*?» note : ■?!»; Ps. 69,4 : -|jri note : *im), while at the edge of the lower margin of fol. 43 b another hand has written : •'itsa O’flblt. For the numerous and interesting notes on the flyleaves (fols. 57 and 58) which reveal much of the history of the MS and its possessors and for the Latin glosses, see G. I. Lieftinck’s article “The ‘Psalterium Hebraycum’ from St. Augustine’s Canter bury rediscovered in the Scaliger bequest at Leyden”. Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 11,2 (1955) 97-104, with 3 photographs; a detailed general description of the MS is also given. De Boer, no. 5. The importance of this MS lies mainly in the fact that it shows a Hebraic activity among Christians in 12th century England, which is not known from other sources. The few Hebrew notes, however, and corrections in the vocalisation may point to the fact that the MS has also been in Jewish hands for some time. There is another aspect of the Hebrew text of this MS which deserves more attention than has hitherto been bestowed upon it and which may help to determine its background, i.e. the vocalisation, which on the face of it, only seems to betray ignorance and inaccuracy. A closer examination, however, reveals some interesting features, some of which are to be found in other medieval Hebrew texts (see e.g. Steinschn.). Further study could prove rewarding. Seal. 9 (Or. 4726). (2) + (95 + 24) fols., 214 X 143 (142 X 93), 27 lines, ruled with a plummet. In the same binding : (fols. 96-120): Arabic proverbs written by a European hand with Latin translation and explanation. Seal. 10 (Or. 4727). 1 + (110 + 17 + 20) fols., 214 X 140. MS I: (128 X 80), 37 lines; MS II: (135 X 80), 38 lines; MS III: (ca. 140 X 100), 29 lines. Binding : Vellum on wood. MS I: Quires indicated by catchwords on their last leaves; outer and inner sheets are vellum : VIII(15) VI-1(26) VI(38) 2VIII(70);