Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Russian Orthodox Psalter, written in 16th or 17th century, in the Bamburgh Castle Library.
Paper (watermark cross of type Piccard Kreuz 662-3, late 16th century)
Unfoliated
I8 (-7), II-IX8, X8 (- 1-2), XI-XIII8, XIV (5 leaves survive)
21 lines per page; kathismatic divisions.
Written in an ordinaryRussian bookhand
Each Psalm starts with a large initial, some with minor decoration.
On the board of the inside front cover (no pastedown) “two cyrillic alphabets and a few other letters, clearly the work of a foreigner (the letters are inexpertly formed and the order is eccentric, showing Greek influence)” (Cleminson 1988)
Full brown leather blind stamped over boards, reused from a larger book.
Written in Russia, 16th or 17th century.
Part of the Bamburgh Castle Library, so probably acquired by a member of the Sharp family.
Psalter and canticles
Cleminson, Ralph, A union catalogue of cyrillic manuscripts in British and Irish collections 
, (London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1988)