Medieval 600

The Psalms and Their Illustration

Summer I Session, 2003
Elizabeth C. Teviotdale
Recent Bibliography on the Iconography of the Individual Psalms

Psalm 1

Bennett, Adelaide. “The Windmill Psalter: The Historiated E of Psalm One,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 43 (1980), 52-67.

Helsinger, Howard. “Images on the ‘Beatus’ Page of Some Medieval Psalters.” Art Bulletin 53 (1971), 161-76.

Wolter-Von Dem Kneseback, Harald. “Meaning in the ‘Inhabited’ Scrolls of Some Beatus Pages: A Case Study.” In The Metamorphosis of Marginal Images: From Antiquity to Present Time, pp. 127-38. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2001.

Psalm 51

Wright, Rosemary Muir. “The Rider on the Sea-Monster: “Quid Gloriaris in Malitia ….” In The North Sea World in the Middle Ages: Studies in the Cultural History of North-Western Europe, pp. 70-87. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001.

Psalm 52

Assirelli, Marco. “L’immagine dello ‘stolto’ nel Salmo 52.” In Codice miniato: Rapporti tra codice, testo e figurazione: Atti del III Congresso di storia della miniature, pp. 19-34. Florence: L. S. Olschki, 1992.

Kolve, V. A. “God-Denying Fools and the Medieval ‘Religion of Love’,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997), 3-59.

Psalm 80

Schaik, Martin van. “The Cymbala in Psalm 80 Initials: A Symbolic Interpretation.” Imago musicae 5 (1988), 23-40.

Psalm 97

McKinnon, James W. “Canticum novum in the Isabella Book,” Mediaevalia 2 (1976), 207-22.

Gradual Psalms (Psalms 119-133)

McKinnon, James W. “The Fifteen Temple Steps and the Gradual Psalms.” Imago musicae 1 (1984), 29-49. Reprint in his The Temple, the Church Fathers and Early Western Chant. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.

Penitential Psalms (Psalms 6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 124, 142)

Owens, Margareth Boyer, “The Image of King David in Prayer in Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours,” Imago musicae 6 (1989), 23-38.




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