The Christina Psalter: A Study of the Images and Texts in a French Early Thirteenth-century Illuminated Manuscript

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Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006 - Art - 154 pages
This book is the first detailed analysis of an exquisitely illuminated thirteenth-century Parisian manuscript (The Royal Library, Copenhagen) which was owned by Christina of Norway (1234-1262), daughter of Håkon IV and wife of Philip of Castile and León. New information is provided about the Psalter?'s medieval and later components, its liturgical and other functions, missing illuminations and texts, as well as its provenance and date. Furthermore, the stylistic and iconographic similarities between the Psalter and some of the most important manuscripts illuminated in Paris in the Period, like the three-volume Moralized Bibles, are discussed. Suggestions also are made about the meanings the texts and images might have had for their intended audience.

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
7
Fly leaves folios 13v 15 Table of Readings folio 3v
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THE ARTISTS STYLE AND ICONOGRAPHY OF
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CONCLUSION
48
THE INTENDED READER
49
CATALOGUE OF THE PREFATORY
55
THE CHRISTINA PSALTER GKS 1606
97
CALENDAR
106
NOTES
119
MANUSCRIPTS CITED
136
INDEX OF NAMES PLACES AND MANUSCRIPTS
150
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Marina Vidas is senior researcher at the Royal Library in Copenhagen and adjunct associate professor in the department of arts and cultural studies at the University of Copenhagen.

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