Eadwine Psalter
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The Eadwine Psalter or Eadwin Psalter is a heavily illuminated 12th-century psalter named after the scribe Eadwine, a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, who was perhaps the "project manager" for the l
A typical page, with the start of Psalm 136/7 "By the rivers of Babylon.." ("Super flumina Babylonis...")
Detail from the prefatory cycle; the parable of Dives and Lazarus
The Nativity of Jesus on the recto of the British Library page
One of the illustrations in the Utrecht Psalter copied in the Eadwine Psalter. Psalm 63 (Vulg.), 64 (AV): "Exaudi, Deus...". Click on images to enlarge.
Herod the Great
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Herod I or Herod the Great was a Roman Jewish client king of the Herodian kingdom of Judea. He is known for his colossal building projects. Among these works are the rebuilding of the Second Temple in
Eadwine Psalter
…British Library Recto: 12 scenes completing the Nativity cycle, from the Annunciation to the Shepherds to Herod's suicide, an uncommon scene (and a medieval distortion of Josephus). Verso: 12 squares, some with 2 scenes, all showing the ministry of Jesus, from the Baptism…
Herod's Temple as depicted on the Holyland Model of Jerusalem. The expansion of the Temple was Herod's most ambitious project.
Ruins of Caesarea's harbor
Distinctive Herodian masonry at the Western Wall in Jerusalem
Massacre of the Innocents, 10th century Codex Egberti. Herod on the left.