SLOVO, sv: 70 (2020), 77-91, Zagreb 2020. Catherine Mary MACROBERT UDK 272-282.7:003.349.1 University of Oxford 091(497.5)"1 catherine.macrobert&lmh.ox.ac.uk 811.163.4242 Izvorni znanstveni članak imljen: 26. travnja 2019. aćen: 9. listopada 2019. OBSERVATIONS ON THE LITURGICAL PSALTER IN MS CANON. LITURG. 172 (BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD) 'This paper examines presentational and textual peculiarities of the liturgical psalter in the bre- viary contained in the Glagolitic MS Canon. liturg. 172 in the Bodleian Library. It argues that ihey demonstrate a heavy reliance on memorization of text, seem 1o reflect distinetive liturgical practice, and imply that the manuscript was written for a specific user. Keywords: breviary, banalizations, canticles, office hymns, liturgical psalter, reminiscences 1. INTRODUCTION 'The Glagolitic codex MS Canon. Liturg. 172 in the Bodleian Library has attracted little scholarly attention, and that little has focussed mainly on the problem of its dating. The aim of this paper is to argue that the ostensibly defective character of its contents, which has made it seem a source of minor importance, in fact offers interesting clues to its intended and actual use. 1.1. Dating 'The manuscript is supplied with a date at the end of the colophon on £. 409r: Dovaršeno lito .čL.i., i.e. in 1310. However, the reliability of this information is highly questionable. The date itself has been added in a different hand from that of the colophon or indeed from those found elsewhere in the manuscript, and it is written, apparently over black lettering, in a dull red ink which again is different from that used for rubrication (DU FEU 1971: plate). Tadin's a tempt to vindicate a date early in the 14th century (TADIN 19$3: 153-155) 7