Ormesby Psalter Law-Turner Frederica C. E.
Ormesby Psalter Law-Turner Frederica C. E. The Ormesby Psalter is one of the most well-known yet mysterious manuscripts to survive the Middle Ages. Likely meant for private devotion by its wealthy…
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Ormesby Psalter Law-Turner Frederica C. E.
The Ormesby Psalter is one of the most well-known yet mysterious manuscripts to survive the Middle Ages. Likely meant for private devotion by its wealthy patrons, this exquisite book of psalms was left unfinished.Housed in Oxford's Bodleian Library for over 150 years, this enigmatic masterpiece is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fourteenth century. It was made in a series of campaigns over many decades, starting in the late-thirteenth century, and the main decorated pages were executed in the 1310s for a marriage that never took place.
Law-Turner places the psalter within a wider historical context and then deciphers its lush illuminations--scenes that vary wildly in tone from the comic to the bawdy to the mythic. Manuscript expert Frederica C. E. Full-color photographs illustrate the text's
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