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Carrow Psalter, Angel hands spade to Adam and spindle to Eve, This English manuscript was made in East Anglia in the mid-thirteenth-century for a patron with special veneration for St. Olaf, whose life and martyrdom is prominently portrayed in the 'Beatus' initial of Psalm 1. Known as the 'Carrow Psalter,' due to its later use by the nunnery of Carrow near Norwich, it is more accurately described as a Psalter-hours, as it contains the Office of the Dead, the Hours of the Virgin, and Collects. The manuscript is striking for its rich variety of illuminations, including full-page cycles of saints, martyrs, and Biblical scenes, as well as historiated initials within the Psalter, and heraldry added in the fifteenth-century to undecorated initials in the Hours of the Virgin. Especially notable is the miniature portraying the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, for after Henry VIII found him guilty of treason in 1538, his image was concealed by gluing a page over it, rather than destroying it, and it has since been rediscovered.
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Carrow Psalter, Angel hands spade to Adam and spindle to Eve, This English manuscript was made in East Anglia in the mid-thirteenth-century for a patron with special veneration for St. Olaf, whose life and martyrdom is prominently portrayed in the 'Beatus' initial of Psalm 1. Known as the 'Carrow Psalter,' due to its later use by the nunnery of Carrow near Norwich, it is more accurately described as a Psalter-hours, as it contains the Office of the Dead, the Hours of the Virgin, and Collects. The manuscript is striking for its rich variety of illuminations, including full-page cycles of saints, martyrs, and Biblical scenes, as well as historiated initials within the Psalter, and heraldry added in the fifteenth-century to undecorated initials in the Hours of the Virgin. Especially notable is the miniature portraying the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, for after Henry VIII found him guilty of treason in 1538, his image was concealed by gluing a page over it, rather than destroying it, and it has since been rediscovered.
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Image size:
2829 x 4860 px | 39.3 MB
Print size:
24.0 x 41.1 cm | 9.4 x 16.2 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
' DUE • 'BEATUS' INITIAL • 'CARROW PSALTER • 1538 • ACCURATELY DESCRIBED • ADAM • ÂGÉS • ALL SAINTS • ANGEL HANDS SPADE • BIBLICAL SCENES • BOOK OF HOURS • BOOK • BOOKS • BRITISH • CARROW PSALTER • CARROW • CHRIST • CHRISTIAN • CHRISTIANS • CLOISTER • CODEX • COLLECTS • CONCEALED • CONTAINS • CONVENT • DEAD • DESTROYING • DEVOTION • EAST ANGLIA • ENGLAND'S • ENGLAND • ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT • ENGLISH • ESPECIALLY • EVE • FIFTEENTH-CENTURY • FULL-PAGE CYCLES • GLUING • GREAT BRITAIN • GUILTY • HERALDRY ADDED • HERALDRY • HIDDEN • HISTORIATED INITIALS WITHIN • HISTORIATED • HOURS • ILLUMINATION • ILLUMINATIONS • IMAGE • INGLES • INITIAL • JESUS CHRIST • JESUS • KING HENRY VIII • LATER • LIBRO • LIFE • LIVRE D'HEURES • MANUSCRIPT • MARTYRDOM • MARTYRS • MASSBOOK, MISSAL • MEDIEVAL • MID-THIRTEENTH-CENTURY • MIDDLE AGES • MIDDLE • MINIATURE PORTRAYING • MINIATURE • MISSAL • MISSAL, MASSBOOK • NORWICH • NUNNERY • OFFICE • OLAF • PAGE • PAINT • PAINTING • PASSION OF CHRIST • PASSION • PATRON • PRAYER BOOK • PRAYERBOOK • PROMINENTLY PORTRAYED • PSALM 1 • PSALTER / HOURS • PSALTER • PSALTER-HOURS • REDISCOVERED • RELIGION: CHRISTIAN • RICH VARIETY • SAINT • SCRIPTURE • SPECIAL VENERATION • SPINDLE • ST • ST. • STRIKING • THOMAS BECKET • TREASON • U. K. • UNDECORATED INITIALS • VIRGIN • WELL
