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The St. Albans psalter : painting and prayer in medieval England

Title
The St. Albans psalter : painting and prayer in medieval England / Kristen Collins, Peter Kidd, and Nancy K. Turner.
Publication
  • Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2013]
  • ©2013

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Additional Authors
  • Collins, Kristen M.
  • Kidd, Peter, 1964-
  • Turner, Nancy, 1960-
  • J. Paul Getty Museum
Description
104 pages : color illustrations, color map; 28 cm
Summary
The St. Albans Psalter is one of the most important, famous, and puzzling books produced in twelfth-century England. It was probably created between 1120 and 1140 at St. Albans Abbey, located on the site where Alban, England's first saint, was martyred. The manuscript's powerfully drawn figures and saturated colors are distinct from those in previous Anglo-Saxon painting and signal the arrival of the Romanesque style of illumination in England. Although most twelfth-century prayer books were not illustrated, the St. Albans Psalter includes more than 40 fullpage illuminations and over 200 historiated initials. Decorated with gold and precious colors, the psalter offers a display unparalleled by any other English manuscript to survive from the period. In 2007 the St. Albans Psalter was removed from its binding and in 2012 the disbound leaves traveled to the J. Paul Getty Museum.0Exhibition: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA (20.09.2013-02.02.2014).
Alternative Title
  • Painting and prayer in medieval England
  • Canterbury and St. Albans, treasures from church and cloister.
Subject
  • St. Albans psalter
  • Psalters > England > St. Albans > History
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > England > St. Albans
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, English > England > St. Albans
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Romanesque > England > St. Albans
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
  • Psalters
  • England > St. Albans
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • "This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition 'Canterbury and St. Albans: Treasures from Church and Cloister' on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from September 20, 2013, to February 2, 2014"--Colophon.
  • "The St. Albans Psalter is among the most important, famous, and puzzling books produced in twelfth-century England. It was probably created between 1120 and 1140 at St. Albans Abbey, located on the site where Alban, England's first saint, was martyred. The manuscript's powerfully drawn figures and saturated colors are distinct from those in previous Anglo-Saxon painting and signal the arrival of the Romanesque style of illumination in England. Although most twelfth-century prayer books were not illustrated, the St. Albans Psalter includes more than 40 fullpage illuminations and over 200 historiated initials. Decorated with gold and precious colors, the psalter offers a display unparalleled by any other English manuscript to survive from the period. In 2006 the St. Albans Psalter was removed from its binding, and in 2012 the disbound leaves traveled to the Getty Museum, where scholars, conservators, and scientists conducted a close examination. New evidence revealed here for the first time challenges established beliefs about this richly illuminated manuscript."-- Publisher description.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 100) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Timothy Potts -- Pictures and the devotional imagination in the St. Albans psalter / Kristen Collins -- Materiality and collaborative enterprise in the making of the St. Albans psalter / Peter Kidd and Nancy K. Turner -- Appendix 1, Physical description of the St. Albans Psalter -- Appendix 2, Glossary.
Call Number
JQF 14-211
ISBN
  • 9781606061459 (pbk.)
  • 1606061453 (pbk.)
LCCN
  • 2013006536
  • 40022853198
OCLC
830124447
Title
The St. Albans psalter : painting and prayer in medieval England / Kristen Collins, Peter Kidd, and Nancy K. Turner.
Publisher
Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 100) and index.
Added Author
Collins, Kristen M., author.
Kidd, Peter, 1964- author.
Turner, Nancy, 1960- author.
Collins, Kristen M. Pictures and the devotional imagination in the St. Albans psalter.
J. Paul Getty Museum.
Added Title
Canterbury and St. Albans, treasures from church and cloister.
Other Standard Identifier
40022853198
Research Call Number
JQF 14-211
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