The St Alban's Psalter: on the Web
To digitise the St Albans Psalter and place it on the web. The images are accompanied by complete transcription, translation (Latin into both English and German). Each image has a page-by-page commentary, and the manuscript is amplified by about 40,000 words of accompanying essays.
Aims: to make the psalter available in colour.
Research questions: to understand how the manuscript was made, when, for whom, and why the range of images were chosen.
Wider research context: this manuscript is the finest example of English Romanesque painting, kept outside Britain (in Germany). In terms of artistic style it set a fashion for decades in England. It contains one of the earliest examples of Frech literature, seldom examined within its codicological context.
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Geddes, Jane, ' The St Albans Psalter: the Abbot and the Anchoress', in H.Leyser and S.Fanous, Christina of Markyate, Routledge, 2004
Geddes, Jane, The St Albans Psalter: a book for Christina of Markyate, British Library, 2005; and also German translation published by Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg, 2005
Jane Geddes, Peter Kidd, The St Albans Psalter (facsimile and commentary)Muller und Schindler,2008.