Current Location: In storage
Titles
Luttrell psalter [facsimile and commentary]
Maker(s)
Editor:
Brown, Michelle P.
Publisher:
Folio Society
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
Paper maker:
John Purcell Ltd
Binder:
Smith Settle Limited
Designer:
Eccles, David
Paper maker:
Fabriano Mill
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Description
Title from spine title of facsimile volume.
Consists of facsimile of the original manuscript ([1], 309, [2] leaves numbered in modern ms., [1] colophon leaf; 36 cm.) and The Luttrell psalter : commentary / Michelle P. Brown. London : The Folio Society, 2006 (206 p. ; 26 cm.).
The Luttrell Psalter is an illuminated manuscript written and illustrated circa 1325-1335 by anonymous scribes and artists. It was commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (died 1345), a wealthy English landowner who lived at Irnham, Lincolnshire. Along with the Psalms, the book contains luxuriously illuminated pictures of saints and bible stories, and of rural life; farming, cooking, doctoring, spouses squabbling, musicians playing, etceteras. It is considered to be the richest source for everyday rural life in England of the Middle Ages.
Also known as the ’Windmill psalter.’
The manuscript facsimile is in Latin; the commentary in English.
1 portfolio : ill. , 39 cm.
Production date:
AD 2006
Issued in a blue clamshell container, with title label on spine, and the commentary in a hollow under the facsimile.
"This facsimile edition of The Luttrell psalter has been reproduced from British Library Additional MS 42130 and printed at Cambridge University Press on Furioso paper from John Purcell Ltd. Photography by Laurence Pordes. The binding by Smith Settle of Otley is in Nigerian goatskin leather blocked with a design by David Eccles, with handmade endpapers from the Fabriano mill. The edition consists of 1480 numbered copies for sale to members of the Folio Society and 20 lettered copies which are not for sale." -- Colophon.
Museum has copy P.
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Support
composed of
paper
Materials used in production
Printing ink
Techniques used in production
Printing
Identification numbers
Accession number: PB 9-2006
Primary reference Number: 140921
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020
Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
