The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This manuscript, illustrated with 155 marginal paintings, is one the few surviving “marginal psalters,” in which images provide a pictorial commentary on the Biblical text. Other examples include the Khludov Psalter (ca. 850 CE, Moscow, State Historical Museum, Muz. 129), the Barberini Psalter (ca. 1050 CE, Vat. Barb. Gr. 372), the Theodore Psalter (1066 CE, London, British Library, Add. Ms. 19,352), and a Cyrillic psalter made in Kiev (1397 CE, Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, cod. OLDP, F6). The Walters' psalter was apparently copied from the same eleventh-century model as the Saint Petersburg manuscript, as the iconography of the two is very similar.
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Miner, D. “The ‘Monastic’ Psalter in the Walters Art Gallery. ” In Late Classical and Medieval Studies in Honor of Albert Mathias Friend, Jr., ed. K. Weitzmann (Princeton, 1955), pp. 232–253.
Cutler, A. “The Marginal Psalter in the Walters Art Gallery: A Reconsideration.” Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 35 (1977): pp. 36–61; repr. in idem, Imagery and Ideology in Byzantine Art (London, 1992), no. iv.
Dufrenne, S. Tableaux synoptiques de 15 psautiers médiévaux à illustrations intégrales issues du texte (Paris, 1978).
Quandt, A., and A. Wallert, “The Technical Study of a Late Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Marginal Psalter from the Walters Art Gallery.” In Painting Techniques: History, Materials and Studio Practice. Contributions to the Dublin Congress 7–11 September 1998, eds. A. Roy and P. Smith (London, 1998), pp. 16–21, with pls. 9–11.
Lowden, J., in Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557), ed. H. Evans, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2004), pp. 274–76, cat. no. 160.
Parpulov, G. R. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 71-189 at pp. 143-147.
Anderson, J. C. "The State of the Walters' Marginal Psalter and Its Implications for Art History." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 35-44.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Eastern Mediterranean
Ca. 1300 CE; 16th century CE (fols. 22 and 96)
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford
Sold after North's death, London, December 1830
Sir Thomas Phillipps
Sotheby's and Co., London, sale of July 1, 1946
Museum purchase, 1946
Eastern Mediterranean
Ca. 1300 CE; 16th century CE (fols. 22 and 96)
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford
Sold after North's death, London, December 1830
Sir Thomas Phillipps
Sotheby's and Co., London, sale of July 1, 1946
Museum purchase, 1946
This manuscript, illustrated with 155 marginal paintings, is one the few surviving “marginal psalters,” in which images provide a pictorial commentary on the Biblical text. Other examples include the Khludov Psalter (ca. 850 CE, Moscow, State Historical Museum, Muz. 129), the Barberini Psalter (ca. 1050 CE, Vat. Barb. Gr. 372), the Theodore Psalter (1066 CE, London, British Library, Add. Ms. 19,352), and a Cyrillic psalter made in Kiev (1397 CE, Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, cod. OLDP, F6). The Walters' psalter was apparently copied from the same eleventh-century model as the Saint Petersburg manuscript, as the iconography of the two is very similar.
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Miner, D. “The ‘Monastic’ Psalter in the Walters Art Gallery. ” In Late Classical and Medieval Studies in Honor of Albert Mathias Friend, Jr., ed. K. Weitzmann (Princeton, 1955), pp. 232–253.
Cutler, A. “The Marginal Psalter in the Walters Art Gallery: A Reconsideration.” Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 35 (1977): pp. 36–61; repr. in idem, Imagery and Ideology in Byzantine Art (London, 1992), no. iv.
Dufrenne, S. Tableaux synoptiques de 15 psautiers médiévaux à illustrations intégrales issues du texte (Paris, 1978).
Quandt, A., and A. Wallert, “The Technical Study of a Late Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Marginal Psalter from the Walters Art Gallery.” In Painting Techniques: History, Materials and Studio Practice. Contributions to the Dublin Congress 7–11 September 1998, eds. A. Roy and P. Smith (London, 1998), pp. 16–21, with pls. 9–11.
Lowden, J., in Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557), ed. H. Evans, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2004), pp. 274–76, cat. no. 160.
Parpulov, G. R. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 71-189 at pp. 143-147.
Anderson, J. C. "The State of the Walters' Marginal Psalter and Its Implications for Art History." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 35-44.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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