Psalter
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"Two illuminated Psalters, the Queen Mary Psalter (British Library Ms. Royal 2B, vii) and the Isabella Psalter (State Library, Munich), contain full Bestiary cycles. The bestiary in the Queen Mary Psalter is found in the "marginal" decorations that occupy about the bottom quarter of the page, and are unusually extensive and coherent in this work. In fact the bestiary has been expanded beyond the source in the Norman bestiary of Guillaume le Clerc to ninety animals. Some are placed in the text to make correspondences with the psalm they are illustrating."--Sholem Stein |
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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 later medieval emergence of the book of hours, psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons and were commonly used for learning to read. Many Psalters were richly illuminated and they include some of the most spectacular surviving examples of medieval book art.
Post medieval psalters
In British North America, the first book printed was the Bay Psalm Book in 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Psalms in it are metrical translations into English.
Significant psalters
- Illuminated manuscripts
- Cathach of St. Columba, early 7th century
- Psalterium Sinaiticum, 11th century
- Canterbury Psalter, 1147
- Salaberga Psalter
- Vespasian Psalter, 2nd quarter of the 8th century
- Irish Bog Psalter
- Psalter of Lothaire
- Montpellier Psalter
- Chludov Psalter, 3rd quarter of the 9th century
- Stuttgart Psalter
- Utrecht Psalter, 9th century
- Southampton Psalter
- Gertrude Psalter, late 10th century with mid-11th century illuminations
- Stavelot Psalter
- Bosworth Psalter
- Aethelstan Psalter
- Harley Psalter
- Ramsey Psalter
- Codex Vossanius
- Paris Psalter, 10th century
- Heidelberg Psalter
- Vatopedi Psalter
- St. Albans Psalter
- Theodore Psalter, 1066, at the British Library
- Eadui Psalter
- Tiberias Psalter
- Vitellius Psalter
- Winchester Psalter
- Melisende Psalter, circa 1135
- Shaftesbury Psalter
- Westminster Psalter
- Camaldoli Psalter
- Gough Psalter
- London Psalter
- Psalter of Lambert de Bègue
- Grandisson Psalter
- Huth Psalter
- Oscott Psalter
- Alphonso Psalter
- Rutland Psalter
- Felbrigge Psalter
- Psalter of Robert de Lindesey
- Ramsey Psalter
- Psalter of St. Louis
- Luttrell Psalter
- Gorleston Psalter
- Macclesfield Psalter
- De Lisle Psalter
- Queen Mary Psalter
- St. Omer Psalter
- Psalter of Henry VIII
- Tomich Psalter
- Psalter of Bonne de Luxembourg
- Tickhill Psalter
- Ormesby Psalter
- Psalter of Jean, Duc de Berry
- Vienna Bohun Psalter
- Kiev Psalter of 1397
- Burnet Psalter
- Sofia Psalter
- St. John's Bible- Psalms, 2007
- Printed psalters
- Psalterium Romanum, 1457 [Mainz], Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer. The first printed psalter.<ref>Margaret Stillwell, The Beginning of the World of Books: 1450 to 1470, New York, 1972, no. 18.</ref>
- Psalterium Benedictinum, 1459 [Mainz], Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer. The second printed psalter.<ref>Margaret Stillwell, The Beginning of the World of Books: 1450 to 1470, New York, 1972, no. 27.</ref>
- Genevan Psalter, 1562
- David's Psalter, a translation of the Book of Psalms into Polish by Jan Kochanowski, 1579
- Scottish Psalter,1635 and 1650
- Bay Psalm Book, 1640
- Grail, The Psalms, 1963, 1993
- ICEL Psalter, 1995
- New England Psalter
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