12th-century manuscript in Trinity College, Cambridge
A typical page, with the start of Psalm 136/7 "By the rivers of Babylon.." ("Super flumina Babylonis...")Detail from the prefatory cycle; the parable of Dives and Lazarus
The Eadwine Psalter or Eadwin Psalter is a heavily illuminated 12th-century psalter named after the scribe Eadwine, a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury (now Canterbury Cathedral), who was perhaps the "project manager" for the large and exceptional book. The manuscript belongs to Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R.17.1) and is kept in the Wren Library. It contains the Book of Psalms in three languages: three versions in Latin, with Old English and Anglo-Norman translations, and has been called the most ambitious manuscript produced in England in the twelfth century. As far as the images are concerned, most of the book is an adapted copy, using a more contemporary style, of the Carolingian Utrecht Psalter, which was at Canterbury for a period in the Middle Ages. There is also a very famous full-page miniature showing Eadwine at work, which is highly unusual and possibly a self-portrait.[1]
In addition to this, there is a prefatory cycle of four folios, so eight pages, fully decorated with a series of miniatures in compartments showing the Life of Christ, with parables and some Old Testament scenes. These pages, and perhaps at least one other, were removed from the main manuscript at some point and are now in the British Library, Victoria and Albert Museum (with one each), and two in the Morgan Library in New York.[2]
It was produced around the mid-century, perhaps 1155–60,[3] and perhaps in two main campaigns of work, one in the 1150s and the other the decade after.[4] It was sometimes called the "Canterbury Psalter" in the past, as in the 1935 monograph by M. R. James, but this is now avoided, if only to avoid confusion with other manuscripts, including the closely related Harley Psalter and the Great Canterbury Psalter (or Anglo-Catalan Psalter, Paris Psalter), which are also copies made in Canterbury of the Utrecht Psalter.
^Gerry; Trinity Coll., MS. R.17.1; on its fame: Ross, 45; Karkov, 299
^Gerry: "New York, Morgan Lib., MSS M.521 and M.724; London, British Library, Add MS 37472; London, V&A, MS. 661"
The EadwinePsalter or Eadwin Psalter is a heavily illuminated 12th-century psalter named after the scribe Eadwine, a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury...
library in 1858 (Benson, 13). Comparison of Utrecht and EadwinePsalters The Utrecht Psalter is lavishly illustrated with lively pen and ink drawings...
Melisende Psalter, circa 1135 EadwinePsalter, c 1160 Harley Psalter St. Albans Psalter Winchester Psalter Westminster Psalter Felbrigge Psalter Great Canterbury...
a series of copies of the Utrecht Psalter made in Canterbury, following the Harley Psalter and the EadwinePsalter. The English elements are: the main...
Musée Condé, MS 9 (Ingeborg Psalter) Cambridge, (now kept at University Library), Trinity College, MS R.17.1 (EadwinePsalter) Copenhagen, National Library...
Prognostications of the EadwinePsalter". In Gibson, Margaret Templeton; Heslop, T. A.; Pfaff, Richard W. (eds.). The EadwinePsalter: Text, Image, and Monastic...
numbering as Psalm 136) is a part of the Nineteenth Kathisma (division of the Psalter) and is read at Matins on Friday mornings throughout the year, except during...
in with the narrative scenes of the Life, though the page from the EadwinePsalter (Canterbury, mid 12th century) illustrated here provides an exception...
story more than one image. The depiction in the 12th-century English EadwinePsalter has a naked female swimmer in the water, holding the empty ark with...
This was encouraged by the idea that "elf-shot" is depicted in the EadwinePsalter, in an image which became well known in this connection. However, this...
(1138–1139) Leaf from the EadwinePsalter, one of the most decorated psalters from medieval England, named after the scribe Eadwine, a monk from Canterbury...
Augustine Gospels were not seen again until much later works like the EadwinePsalter, made in the 12th century in Canterbury, which has prefatory pages...
depictions, the attempt succeeds; for example, in the 12th-century EadwinePsalter. Other medieval dramatizations, such as the Ordo Rachelis, follow Josephus'...
Utrecht Psalter, which was at Canterbury from about 1000 to 1640. This was copied in the 1020s in the Harley Psalter, and in the EadwinePsalter of the...
about 1165 and known as the "waterworks plan" is preserved in the EadwinePsalter in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. A detailed description...
at Canterbury; the later ones were the 12th-century EadwinePsalter and the Anglo-Catalan Psalter. It contains more than 100 11th-century coloured pen...
continued to be a feature of English art for centuries, for example in the EadwinePsalter (Canterbury, probably 1150s) and the work of Matthew Paris, monk of...
Paul About 1250 medieval manuscripts including the great 12th-century EadwinePsalter from Christ Church, Canterbury, the 13th-century Anglo-Norman Trinity...
library dating from the 12th to 16th centuries include: a leaf from the EadwinePsalter, Canterbury; Pocket Book of Hours, Reims; Missal from the Royal Abbey...
borrowed from Old French primitive form sizre "fermented beverage" (EadwinePsalter, LXVIII, 14) and then from another younger French form cistre, later...
river Yangtze, recording his progress in a diary. Before 1173: Copenhagen Psalter produced in northern England 1170: 29 December – Archbishop of Canterbury...
the Blickling Psalter (Morgan Library & Museum, M.776). The latest Old English gloss is contained in the 12th-century EadwinePsalter. The Old English...
Hunterian Psalter. Glasgow University Library, special exhibition Glasgow University Library accessed 30 August 2008 Gibson, Margaret T. (1992). The Eadwine Psalter:...
Psalter [Wikidata] Le Roman de la Rose, 1864. Two volumes Le Livre des psaumes (The EadwinePsalter), 1876 Les voyages merveilleux de saint Brandan, 1878 Rôles Gascons...
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