Monday, 19 June 2017

Ormesby Psalter (Bodl. MS Douce 366)

Courting couple, f. 131r.

Colloquial name(s): Ormesby Psalter
Official name(s): Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 366

Date: c. 1310 with donor portraits added c. 1320-30 (source)
Origin: East Anglia, donor portraits added in Norwich (source)

Online facsimile available via: LUNA

This early 14th Century manuscript has a number of illustrations including a full-page 'Beatus' with  a Jesse tree and donor portraits and a number of historiated initials, marginal illustrations and bas-de-page illustrations.

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