# Cassiodorus: Commentary on the Psalms [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 0801-0850 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. lat. 2195\), 375 x 270 mm ## Commentary Cassiodorus: Commentary on the Psalms 802-10 Manuscript \(Ms. lat. 2195\), 375 x 270 mm Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris Cassiodorus \(c. 485-c. 585\), was a Roman statesman and writer, serving in the administration of Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. The composition of his Commentary on the Psalms \(Expositio Psalmorum\) can be allotted to the period 540-560. Cassiodorus deploys the psalms not only for the purposes of instruction in theology and hermeneutics, but also to inculcate a general education in eloquence. The present Latin manuscript of 150 folios is a copy of Cassiodorus's commentary on the Psalms made at Saint-Denis in the style associated with Abbot Fardulphus \(793-806\). The picture shows folio 9v which has an initial 'B' with the head of an elephant embellished with green and red. ## 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]()