The Christina Psalter
Subtitle: A Study of the Images and Texts in a French Early Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9788763501279
Subjects: Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter; Art; History - General; Subjects & Themes - Religious; France; History; Illumination of books and manuscripts, French; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Psalters
Description: This book is the first detailed analysis of an exquisitely illuminated thirteenth-century Parisian manuscript (GKS 1606, 4[degree], the Royal Library, Copenhagen) which was owned by Christina of Norway (1234-1262), daughter of Hakon IV and wife of Phillip of Castile and Leon. New information is provided about the Psalter's medieval and later components, its liturgical and other functions, missing illuminations and texts, as well as its provenance and date. Furthermore, the stylistic and iconographic similarities between the Psalter and some of the most important manuscripts illuminated in Paris in the period, like the three-volume Moralized Bibles, are discussed. Suggestions also are made about the meanings the texts and images might have had for their intended audience.