Liturgical psalters are among the most important and beautifully illustrated of medieval Christian books. In their simplest form, psalters included 150 psalms, preceded by a calendar and followed by canticles, or biblical texts, meant to be sung at church services. Though this core content remained relatively unchanged throughout the Middle Ages and across countries, psalters show considerable variation in size, style of presentation, and choice of supplementary texts.
"Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library "describes more than one hundred psalters from Britain, France, the...