Friday, January 7, 2011

A Book about the Christina Psalter...

I recently picked up a book, for my ever growing library, on the Christina Psalter written by Dr. Marina Vidas, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Copenhagen.  The Christina Psalter (GKS 1606, 4°, The Royal Library, Copenhagen) is a thirteenth-century Parisian manuscript and the book by Dr. Vidas covers the history of the Psalter, its liturgical and other functions, missing illuminations and text, the stylistic and iconographic similarities between the Psalter and other books from the period.

So far it's been an interesting and enjoyable read. The book does contain a few color images of the Psalter as well as some grayscale ones of other manuscripts that Dr. Vidas also talks about.

Images of the Christina Psalter can be found online here.


Isaac

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