Psalterium Sancti Ruperti - Facsimile Editions and Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

This manuscript containing the Psalms shows the ability of its makers in producing an extremely small book measuring only 37 x 31 mm. An extraordinary manuscript for its size and antiquity, the Psalter, preserved in the Archiv von St. Peter in Salzburg, is a rare Carolingian example of illuminated manuscript.
It was most likely produced in the third quarter of the ninth century in France. The opening page of the codex bears a note of possession that describes the manuscript as belonging to the bishop Rupert.
It contains a full-page miniature portraying King David with his psaltery, a stringed instrument that traditionally accompanied the Psalms. The portrait follows the Late Antique tradition of adding the image of the author to the text, thus testifying the authenticity of the Psalms.

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Facsimile edition (Das Psalterium Sancti Ruperti) published by ADEVA in 2007.

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