Stowe Psalter

The text includes the Gallican version of the Psalms, followed by the Canticles with an interlinear Old English gloss.

It belonged to Sir Henry Spelman, who signed it on folios 1 recto and 180 verso.

The manuscript was later owned by Thomas Astle, who called it King Alfred's Psalter.

Astle included a facsimile of folio 1 verso in his Origin and Progress of Writing.

[3] It was owned by the Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos and kept at Stowe House.

Beatus initial , Folio 1 recto of British Library, MS Stowe 2.