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The St Albans Psalter, in: European Research Centre for Book and Paper Conservation Restoration. Newsletter 2/2015 Nov. 2015, p. 4-17, online: [2] Collins, Kristen & Fisher, Matthew (eds.) (2017) St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter: Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England (Studies in Iconography: Themes and Variations) Online version: St ...
Their friendship was such that he is said to have altered the St Albans Psalter as a gift for her, by having an illuminated "C" placed at the beginning of Psalm 105. [4] Images of each page of the Psalter with transcriptions and translations of the text can be found on the online St Albans Psalter project. [9]
Hildesheim, Dombibliothek, Sankt Godehard Hs 1 (St. Albans Psalter / Albani Psalter / Psalter of Christina of Markyate) Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 76 A (Psalter) London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero C. IV. (Winchester Psalter) London, British Library, MS Egerton 1139 (Melisende Psalter)
A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the emergence of the book of hours in the Late Middle Ages , psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons.
The Westminster Psalter, British Library, MS Royal 2 A XXII, is an English illuminated psalter of about 1200, with some extra sheets with tinted drawings added around 1250. It is the oldest surviving psalter used at Westminster Abbey, and is presumed to have left Westminster after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Geddes analysed the images and text of the Psalter to argue that the book was made for the medieval anchoress and prioress Christina of Markyate. [8] Diane Watt said of the St Albans Psalter project that ‘This electronic publication marked a significant moment in scholarship on women’s literary culture in post-Conquest England’. [9]
The Book of Saint Albans, originally Boke of Seynt Albans, is the common title of a book printed in 1486 that is a compilation of matters relating to the interests of the time of a gentleman. [1] It was the last of eight books printed by the St Albans Press in England.
Examples include the St. Albans Psalter, Hunterian Psalter, Winchester Bible (the "Morgan Leaf" shown above), Fécamp Bible, Stavelot Bible, and Parc Abbey Bible. By the end of the period lay commercial workshops of artists and scribes were becoming significant, and illumination, and books generally, became more widely available to both laity ...