Explore: Peterborough Psalter In Brussels

The Peterborough Psalter is a name given to two different illuminated manuscripts psalters produced in the scriptorium of Peterborough Abbey. One, from

Miller, 1986) / L.F. Sandler - no. 50. Sandler, L.F., The Peterborough Psalter in Brussels and Other Fenland Manuscripts, 1974, pp. 12–13, 88, 96, 98-9

Blanche de France) Brussels, Bibliothèque royale Albert 1er, MS 8340. (Bestiary) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 53 (Peterborough Bestiary) Cambridge

Alphonso Psalter. From the 14th century, the Ormesby Psalter, the Luttrell Psalter, the Gorleston Psalter, the De Lisle Psalter, the Peterborough Psalter and

Angel playing citole in a c. 1310 illustration from the "Ormesby Psalter". England. Citole, before 1321, Peterborough Psalter, Brussels. England, a citole

(clappers), harp and fiddle. 8th century A.D., England. Vespasian Psalter (Canterbury Psalter, MS Cotton Vespasian A.I, fol. 30v). King David playing the lyre

was influenced strongly by the presence in Canterbury from around 1000 of the Carolingian Utrecht Psalter, where each psalm is illustrated with a panoramic

of few secular scenes in the illuminated manuscript known as the Peterborough Psalter of 1299–1328. But such a scene was staged and acted out by "many