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.