This is a fascinating study of the making of the Harley Psalter, an illustrated manuscript which was produced at Christ Church, Canterbury, over a period of about 100 years, from c. 1020 to c. 1130. The Harley Psalter was closely based on the Utrecht Psalter, the most celebrated of all Carolingian illuminated manuscripts. Through meticulous observation of the Harley Psalter, William Noel analyses how the artists and scribes worked with each other and with their manuscript exemplars in making their illustrated text. The author demonstrates that this work is best understood not as a copy of the Utrecht Psalter, but rather as one of a series of Anglo-Saxon manuscript experiments that incorporated its imagery. This is a crucial work for understanding the development of art, script and book making during what has been termed the 'golden age' of Anglo-Saxon art.
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This is a fascinating study of the making of the Harley Psalter, an illustrated manuscript which was produced at Christ Church, Canterbury over a period of about 100 years, from c. 1020 to c. 1130. William Noel analyses how the artists and scribes worked with each other and with their manuscript exemplars in making their illustrated text. This is a crucial work for understanding the development of art, script and book making during what has been termed the 'golden age' of Anglo-Saxon art.
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Quires 1, 2, 3, 4, and 9 of the Harley Psalter certainly look more like Utrecht than the other six quires. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pricking marks, copies anglaises, psalm illustration, verse capitals, inventive group, contemporary artefacts, ruling pattern, regular quire, facing flesh, illustrated miscellany, five quires, luxe manuscripts, marginal drawings, illustration space, rustic capitals, few folios, manuscript production, blue touches, inner margin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Utrecht Psalter, Christ Church, Harley Psalter, Anglo-Saxon Mss, Bury Psalter, Eadui Basan, Caroline Script, Anglo-Saxon England, Bury St Edmunds, English Drawings, Regularis Concordia, Stowe Charter, Bodleian Library, Manus Dei, Trinity College, Arenberg Gospels, Canterbury School, Corpus Christi College, Harley Mss, Middle Ages, New York, Queen Emma, Textual Illustration, The Church of Canterbury, Vatican Library New!
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Quires 1, 2, 3, 4, and 9 of the Harley Psalter certainly look more like Utrecht than the other six quires. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pricking marks, copies anglaises, psalm illustration, verse capitals, inventive group, contemporary artefacts, ruling pattern, regular quire, facing flesh, illustrated miscellany, five quires, luxe manuscripts, marginal drawings, illustration space, rustic capitals, few folios, manuscript production, blue touches, inner margin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Utrecht Psalter, Christ Church, Harley Psalter, Anglo-Saxon Mss, Bury Psalter, Eadui Basan, Caroline Script, Anglo-Saxon England, Bury St Edmunds, English Drawings, Regularis Concordia, Stowe Charter, Bodleian Library, Manus Dei, Trinity College, Arenberg Gospels, Canterbury School, Corpus Christi College, Harley Mss, Middle Ages, New York, Queen Emma, Textual Illustration, The Church of Canterbury, Vatican Library New!
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge on 10 pages
- The Salisbury Psalter (Early English Text Society Original Series) by Celia Sisam on 5 pages
- England in the Eleventh Century: Proceedings of the 1990 Harlaxton Symposium (Harlaxton Mediaeval Studies) by Carola Hicks on 4 pages
- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 27 by Michael Lapidge on page 29, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop on page 196, and Back Matter
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- The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Mechthild Gretsch on page 279, page 293, and Back Matter
- Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Catherine E. Karkov on page 6, page 7, and Back Matter
- Western Plainchant in the First Millennium: Studies in the Medieval Liturgy and Its Music by Sean Gallagher on page 115, and Back Matter
- The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ's Passion by Celia Chazelle on page 251
- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 25 by Michael Lapidge in Back Matter
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