Vespasian Psalter
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The Vespasian Psalter is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated psalter decorated in a partly Insular style produced in the second or third quarter of the 8th century. It contains an interlinear gloss in Old Engl
King David with his musicians; start of Psalm 27
Book of Cerne
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The Book of Cerne is an early ninth-century Insular or Anglo-Saxon Latin personal prayer book with Old English components. It belongs to a group of four such early prayer books, the others being the R
Vespasian Psalter
…belongs to a group of manuscripts from Southern England known as the Tiberius group, also including the Stockholm Codex Aureus, Barberini Gospels, the Book of Cerne, the Tiberius Bede, and the Book of Nunnaminster. The psalter contains the Book of Psalms together with letters of St. Jerome, hymns and canticles. The…
Book of Cerne, f. 12v: Gospel of St Mark miniature, showing the winged Lion of St Mark