# Psalter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1201-1250 - Technique: Manuscript \(Med. Pal. 13\) ## Commentary Psalter 1200-50 Manuscript \(Med. Pal. 13\) Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence This French codex was made for a patron from north-eastern France, between Burgundy and Champagne. It contains numerous ornamental initials as well as eight which are historiated at the beginnings of the sections into which the text is divided. On folio 1, at the beginning of the Psalm Beatus vir, Christ is shown in Majesty in the upper part of the initial "B". In the lower part of the letter, David is playing the lyre, surrounded by other musical instruments. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 9 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/18\_cent/vivaldi\_beatus\_vir.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Antonio Vivaldi: Beatus vir \(Psalm 112\) RV 598</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()