# Heidelberg Psalter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, German]() - Date: 1051-1100 - Technique: Manuscript \(Pal. lat. 39.\) ## Commentary Heidelberg Psalter 11th century Manuscript \(Pal. lat. 39.\) Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican This manuscript was written and decorated in southern Germany in the eleventh century, but additions datable to the late thirteenth century were made to it. It is a Book of Psalms which was considered in the Middle Ages to be the most important book of the Old Testament. The manuscript comes from the Monastery of Saints Michael and Stephen in Heidelberg. The decoration consists of initials and a large miniature on folio 44v representing David and four named musicians in front of the Ark of the Covenant, set against a purple ground. The composition is divided into two levels. ## Related artworks - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Ada Gospels]() - [Allegory of the Sacraments]() - [Antoninus Florentinus: Chronicon]() - [Aratea]() - [Astronomical-computist collection]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()