|
Date: |
|
Description: | Probably made at Winchester, although it is not certain by or for which religious house there, the Arundel Psalter seems to have been a personal prayerbook. Throughout the middle ages, the Psalter was used for church services and as a personal prayerbook. Individualistic choices of saints for its calendar as well as Old English glosses on the Latin text suggest this one was made for private prayer.
Blank pages at the beginning or end of a book or sections of it were often used to fill in additional texts seen as useful for the book's user(s). 'Historical' annals from Old Testament up to contemporary times (1099) were written on the last page of the Arundel Psalter. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
|
|