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Description: | Five full-page miniatures have been inserted as single leaves into this 13th-century Psalter, but they are in a different, older style, and are probably re-used from a 12th-century manuscript. There is no trace of a calendar or litany, and lacking any liturgical evidence, the manuscript has been tentatively attributed to the East Midlands.
The image of an ass playing a lyre or harp was popular in the Middle Ages, perhaps inspired by Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, in which Philosophy asks "Do you listen only as the 'dull ass to the lyre'?", meaning "are you too stupid to understand what you hear?" Such images were perhaps intended to parody representations of King David harping, which are often found in illustrated Psalters. | 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 |
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