# Psalter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Manuscript \(I. B. 50\), 170 x 120 mm ## Commentary Psalter 1325-50 Manuscript \(I. B. 50\), 170 x 120 mm Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples This Psalter is in small format but of excellent artistic quality. Its decoration consists of eight illuminated initials inhabited by small figures. Delicate borders framing the pages are enriched with buds and small leaves, or with fantastic animals and little birds. On folio 14 in the initial "B" at the beginning of the Psalm Beatus vir, David is shown playing the lyre. At the bottom, along the sober and elegant frame, the small figure of a huntsman sounding his horn and a deer hunted by two dogs are highlighted by the careful use of shadow. The decoration is the work of an able follower of Jean Pucelle, the main representative of the Paris school in the first half of the fourteenth century. <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]()