Psalter (BNF Latin 765)

Illuminated captial, f. 23r.

Colloquial name(s): Psalterium ad usum ecclesiae Sarisburiensis

Official name(s): Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 765

Date: 1301-1400 (source), likely c. 1350-79 based on the costume

Origin: England (source)

Online facsimile available via: Bibliothèque nationale de France Gallica digital library

This English psalter consists of a calendar of Salisbury, including obits for Jean Cokayn and his wife Ide, as well as a psalter, hymns, litanies of Salisbury and the Office of the Dead (source). At f. 23, it has the arms of the Fitz Warines (source). The psalter is illustrated with 16 illuminations (source).

List of illustrations:

7r	Whole-page illustration: a woman wearing a tippeted gown and a frilled veil kneels before a haloed woman and a haloed girl reading from a book on a lectern. Behind her, a haloed man with long hair, a beard and a walking stick stands.
8r	Whole-page illustration: left half, three men (two haloed, one dressed as a pilgrim complete with staff and pilgrim's hat with scallop shell badge) sit; right, a haloed, bearded man (Jesus?) kneels and prays whilst an angel descends from heaven.
9r	Whole-page illustration: Judas kisses Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, identifying him to the soldiers.
10r	Whole-page illustration: Jesus is tied up, surrounded by men (many of whom wear striped garments, which may indicate evil-doers).
11r	Whole-page illustration: Jesus is brought before Pontias Pilot by three men, all of whom wear striped garments.
12r	Whole-page illustration: Jesus is whipped by two men wearing striped garments.
13r	Whole-page illustration: Jesus carries his cross, accompanied by two men wearing striped garments.
14r	Whole-page illustration: Jesus on the cross, accompanied by the two thieves, the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, two men in civilian clothing, two men in armour and one man in a bishop's mitre.
15r	Whole-page illustration: Jesus(?), carrying a cross-shaped staff with a pennant, leads naked men out of a hellmouth.
16r	Whole-page illustration: the Descent from the Cross - Jesus, accompanied by Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene.
17r	Whole-page illustration: Jesus' body is lain in the tomb and anointed with oil(?).
18r	Whole-page illustration: Jesus, holding a cross-shaped staff with a pennant, climbs out of his tomb, accompanied by two angels.
19r	Whole-page illustration: Mary Magdalene(?) and the twelve disciples.
20r	Whole-page illustration: the holy ghost, in the form of a dove, descends to Mary Magdalene(?) and the twelve disciples.
21v	Whole-page illustration: a seated haloed man (Jesus?) accompanied by the symbols of the Evangelists in roundels.
22r	Whole-page illustration: a rood (Jesus on the cross, accompanied by Mary and John).
23r	Illuminated initial: King David with harp, plus a woman wearing a tippeted gown and frilled veil.