The Stuttgart Psalter

Saint Germain (France), 820-830
Mainly Carolingian minuscule

Württemburgische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart (Germany)
Bibl. Fol. 23

Date of Publication of the Facsimile: 1930
Publisher: The Department of Art and Archeology of Princeton University
Series: Illuminated Manuscripts of the Middle Ages
Made and Printed in Germany

Date of Publication of the Facsimile: 1965
Publisher, Farbenlichtdruck-Tafeln and Printing: E. Schreiber Graphische Kunstanstalten, Stuttgart (Germany)
Paper produced by Hugo Albert Schoeller GMBH, Düren (Germany)

The psalms were an ubiquitous component of medieval liturgy. Memorized from childhood, they were at the very core of the Liturgy of the Hours, when monks and clerics gathered at regular intervals during day and night to chant and pray together. The complete cycle of psalms was thus repeated very many times during the year, the frequency varying with the particular congregation.

The 1930 facsimile, with commentary by Ernest T. Wald, was probably produced by the collotype method, a very painstaking process enabling excellent transfer of a photograph to the lithographic plate, with remarkably good reproduction of half tones, and even of color. The production of color plates was especially costly, however, so that only very few were provided with a collotype facsimile, if any. The only color plate produced in the 1930 facsimile was that of the Crucifixion.

1965 facsimile fol. 2r (96K)

1930 facsimile fol. 27r (80K)

1965 facsimile fol. 27r (88K)

1965 facsimile fol. 73r (80K)

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