A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the emergence of the book of hours in the Late Middle Ages, psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons. They were commonly used for learning to read. Many Psalters were richly illuminated, and they include some of the most spectacular surviving examples of medieval book art.
Carolingian Psalter (facsimile)
Folio 15b of the Utrecht Psalter illustrates Psalm 27
The Mudil Psalter, the oldest complete psalter in the Coptic language (Coptic Museum, Egypt, Coptic Cairo).
Initials from the beginning of psalms in the St. Albans Psalter.
The Book of Psalms, also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Hebrew Bible called Ketuvim ("Writings"), and a book of the Old Testament.
David composing the Psalms, Paris Psalter, 10th century
An 1880 Baxter process illustration of Psalm 23, from the Religious Tract Society's magazine The Sunday at Home
Psalm 11 in the 9th-century Utrecht Psalter, where the illustration of the text is often literal.
David Playing the Harp by Jan de Bray, 1670
