Queen Mary Psalter

Queen Mary's Psalter with historicized initial and drolleries.

The so-called Queen Mary Psalter is an illustrated psalter that was created around 1310 and is one of the highlights of High Gothic book illumination in England. In addition to the actual miniatures, the 464 autonomous marginal scenes, which mainly depict everyday situations, are particularly important.

Today the manuscript is kept in the British Library in London under the signature Ms. Royal 2. B. VII.

literature

• Anne Rudloff Stanton: The Queen Mary psalter. A study of affect and audience . Philadelphia American Philosophical Society, 2001
• Kurt Lindner: Queen Mary's Psalter . Hamburg, Parey, 1966.

Web links

• Description of the manuscript in the Catalog of illuminated manuscripts of the British Library (with bibliography)