The University of Abardeen has digitized and published the St Albans Psalter along with transcriptions and translations, commentaries, and essays on the work. This medieval manuscript, produced in the first half of the 12th century for Christina of Markyate, offers an excellent example of English Romanesque illumination. It is unusual in that each psalm is accompanied by a historiated initial related to the text.
This psalter formed the basis of my decision to develop my own illuminations for the pslams and has served me in my own meditative practice. I like to read a given psalm in English and then contemplate the centuries-old image depicting the passage. Frequently the intial will draw my attention to a piece of the text I'd overlooked in my reading.
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