# Psalter of Robert de Lindesey [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, English]() - Date: 1201-1250 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. 59\), 240 x 155 mm ## Commentary Psalter of Robert de Lindesey 1220-22 Manuscript \(Ms. 59\), 240 x 155 mm Society of Antiquaries, London This psalter was written and illuminated for Robert de Lindesey, abbot of the Benedictine abbey at Peterborough in England. The illustrations are distinguished by their refined elegance and noble design, eschewing the otherwise widespread use in England of proliferating flower imagery or grotesques. The miniature on folio 36r shows 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]()