# Westminster Psalter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, English]() - Date: 1201-1250 - Technique: Manuscript \(Royal MS 2 a xxii\), 230 x 155 mm ## Commentary Westminster Psalter c. 1200 Manuscript \(Royal MS 2 a xxii\), 230 x 155 mm British Library, London This Latin Psalter was compiled for the Westminster Abbey in London. The illumination includes roundels of the Signs of the Zodiac in colours and gold, in the calendar; five full-page prefatory miniatures in colours and gold; ten inhabited, historiated, or decorated initials in colours and gold. The painting of this Psalter is remarkable for the fullness and softness of the style of the drapery. It is not known whether the Psalter was executed by a man trained in London. The picture shown here depicts Christ in Majesty. ## Related artworks - [Acts of the Abbots]() - [Alphonso Psalter]() - [Amesbury Psalter]() - [Anatomical figure]() - [Angels Turning the Spheres of the Universe]() - [Apocalypse]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Beda Venerabilis: The Life of St Cuthbert]() - [Benedictional of Archbishop Robert]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()