King David Illuminations

A French psalter, 1205  Today I've been looking at a very special Psalter at the Getty Museum.  This illuminated manuscript was created in 1205, in France, by an anonymous artist known as the "Master of the Ingeborg Psalter."  The Getty site reproduces only 9 folios (sides) of the psalter, but these images certainly make up in quality anything they lack in quantity. 

There are two main routes for acquainting yourself with the nine folios.   One is to "page through the book," by beginning with the first plate, working one's way on through to the middle plates, and continuing on until the last one.

My preferred method, however, is to simply work my way down (or skip about, if I wish) a list of the available folios, with their contents, as follows --

Initial D: Samuel anointing David (f. 27) (curator's notes) (favorite)

Initial D: David pointing to his mouth (f. 41v) (curator's notes)

Initial Q: David before Saul (f. 55) (curator's notes)

Initial D: A fool with 2 demons (f. 56)  (curator's notes)

Initial S: David in prayer (f. 70v) (curator's notes) (favorite)

 

Initial E, highly decorated initial (f. 88v) (curator's notes)

Initial C: David playing bells (f. 105v) (curator's notes) (favorite)

Initial D: David in prayer (f. 108) (curator's notes)

Initial D: Christ enthroned (f. 123) (curator's notes)

Comments

[Amanda M]

Thanks for returning to illuminated manuscripts once again! They are an inspiration to me.

[Ciara]

Thank you, Amanda. Sometimes I'm afraid I put up too many illuminated manuscript pages. Yours words are very reassuring to me. :-))