1973 The Winchester Psalter

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

In the publisher's original cloth binding.

With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.

This edition presents a detailed an authoritative monograph on one of the most notable twelfth century English Psalters. This volume features 134 illustrations, with numerous plates, including four in color, offering an authoritative analysis of the manuscript known as the Winchester Psalter, or British Library Cotton MS Nero C. iv. First edition, thus. Collated, complete.

Wormald's work is notable for its detailed examination of the manuscript's extensive prefatory miniatures, which depict scenes from the Old Testament, the Life of Christ, and the Last Judgment.

Francis Wormald, CBE, FBA, FSA, was a distinguished British historian and educator who served as Director of the Institute of Historical Research from 1960 to 1967. In 1948, he held the prestigious Sandars Readership in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge.