Utrecht Psalter

The Utrecht Psalter (since 1732 in the Utrecht University Library, Ms. 32) is a masterpiece of Carolingian book art. He was around 820 - 835 AD made ​​in the Benedictine monastery of Villers skin and equipped with 166 ink drawings. From the same so-called school of Reims and probably of the same gathered for this purpose scribes and illuminators the Ebo - of Gospels.

The tradition to make the Psalms interpretive, is derived from the Palace School of Charlemagne in Aachen. The Psalter represents many of the cultural achievements of the Carolingian period

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