Psalter
A Psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms and which often contains other devotional material. Various schemes for the arrangement of the Psalms are described in Latin Psalters.
In the early Middle Ages Psalters were amongst the most popular types of manuscripts, rivaled only by the Gospel Books. Medieval Psalters often included a calendar, a litany of saints, canticles from the Old and New Testaments, as well as other devotional texts. Many Psalters were lavishly illuminated with full-page miniatures as well as decorated initials.
In British North America, the first book printed was the Bay Psalm Book in 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Psalms in it are metrical translations into English.
The psalter is also a part of either the Horologion or the breviary, used to say the Liturgy of the Hours in the Eastern and Western Christian worlds respectively.
Significant Psalters
Illuminated Manuscripts
- Cathach of St. Columba, early 7th century
- Salaberga Psalter
- Vespasian Psalter, 2nd quarter of the 8th century
- Irish Bog Psalter
- Psalter of Lothaire
- Montpellier Psalter
- Chludov Psalter, 3rd quarter of the 9th century
- Stuttgart Psalter
- Utrecht Psalter, 9th century
- Southampton Psalter
- Gertrude Psalter, late 10th century with mid-11th century illuminations
- Stavelot Psalter
- Bosworth Psalter
- Aethelstan Psalter
- Harley Psalter
- Ramsey Psalter
- Codex Vossanius
- Paris Psalter, 10th century
- Heidelberg Psalter
- Vatopedi Psalter
- St. Albans Psalter
- Theodore Psalter
- Eadui Psalter
- Tiberias Psalter
- Vitellius Psalter
- Winchester Psalter
- Melisende Psalter, circa 1135
- Shaftesbury Psalter
- Westminster Psalter
- Camaldoli Psalter
- Gough Psalter
- London Psalter
- Psalter of Lambert de Bègue
- Grandisson Psalter
- Huth Psalter
- Oscott Psalter
- Alphonso Psalter
- Rutland Psalter
- Felbrigge Psalter
- Psalter of Robert de Lindesey
- Ramsey Psalter
- Psalter of St. Louis
- Luttrell Psalter
- Gorleston Psalter
- Macclesfield Psalter
- De Lisle Psalter
- Queen Mary Psalter
- St. Omer Psalter
- Psalter of Henry VIII
- Tomich Psalter
- Psalter of Bonne de Luxembourg
- Tickhill Psalter
- Ormesby Psalter
- Psalter of Jean, Duc de Berry
- Vienna Bohun Psalter
- Kiev Psalter of 1397
- Burnet Psalter
- Sofia Psalter
- St. John's Bible- Psalms, 2007
Printed Psalters
- Geneva Psalter, 1562
- Davids' Psalter, 1579
- Scottish Psalter,1635 and 1650
- Bay Psalm Book, 1640
- Grail, The Psalms, 1963, 1993
- ICEL Psalter, 1995
- New England Psalter
See also
- Metrical psalter
- Book of Hours
- Latin Psalters
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