2005 The St. Albans Psalter: A Book for Christina of Markyate

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

First edition. Illustrated with hundred of in-text images, many of which are in colour. The St. Albans Psalter is an English illuminated manuscript, one of several psalters known to have been created at or for St. Albans Abbey in the twelfth century. This is the first study to reproduce so much of the Psalter in colour, fully integrating the contents into the historical context of its probable patron, Abbot Geoffrey of St. Albans. Its recipient Christina of Markyate was an anchoress, who came from a wealthy English family trying to accommodate with the Normans at that time. She later became the prioress of a community of nuns. Written by Jane Geddes, a British art historian and academic, specialising in Scottish architecture, British Medieval manuscripts, Pictish sculpture and Medieval decorative ironwork