# Psalter of Charles the Bald [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 0851-0900 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. lat. 1152\), 240 x 195 mm ## Commentary Psalter of Charles the Bald 850-69 Manuscript \(Ms. lat. 1152\), 240 x 195 mm Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris This Psalter was probably made in the Palace School of Charles the Bald at Saint-Denis for Charles the Bald \(died 877\), the grandson of Charlemagne, king of France from 840 and emperor from 875. It contains 173 folios with psalms, canticles and hymns. On folio 3v of the manuscript Charles the Bald is shown on his jewel-studdded throne. ## 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]()