Psalter of Louis the Saint
The Psalter Louis the Holy (also Ludwig Psalter ) is a for King Louis IX. Psalter made by France around 1270 to 1274 . The manuscript is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.
The manuscript contains 78 full-page miniatures and is adorned with eight figurative initials. Probably three to six different artists designed the work together with the scribes in a joint workshop ( scriptorium ). Her work can be counted among the highlights of Gothic book illumination.
Ownership history
An entry in the Ludwig Psalter allows the assignment of the manuscript to Ludwig XI. to. After 1400 it came from the property of the royal family to the monastery of Poissy . After the French Revolution in 1872 it came into the possession of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris via a few detours.
Image program
The Psalter of Louis the Saint contains a calendar with ecclesiastical memorial days as well as the Latin text of the psalms from the Old Testament and is concluded with texts from several prayers. In the then usual choice of scenes, the painters did not depict illuminations for the psalm texts, but related scenes from the Old Testament. The full-page miniatures were painted on parchment, probably selected by the workshop management for the client or together with them. The pictures show important people in the Bible like Jacob , Moses , the military leader Joshua and the first king of Israel Saul . The pictures show the people and scenes from their lives. One of the clerks in the workshop has included explanations in French on the following pages.
style
Despite the different hands that created the pictures, they are constructed in a similar way. The upper part is given a roof, which is reminiscent of the architectural features of the palace chapel Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. Below that, on a gold background, divided by columns, two episodes from a cycle of images are shown.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ms. lat. 10525.
literature
- Marcel Thomas: The Psalter of Louis the Holy. Reproduction of the 78 full-page miniatures of the Manuscript Latin 10525 from the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris . Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 1985
- Harvey Stahl: Picturing kingship. History and painting in the Psalter of Saint Louis. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa. 2008, ISBN 978-0-271-02863-7
- Patricia front man, Marcel Thomas: The psalter of Louis the saint. Ms. lat. 10525 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 2011, ISBN 978-3-201-01949-1
