MAKE A MEME View Large Image Gallican Psalter with canticles (the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter') - Upper Cover (Add ms 37768).jpg Style Treasure binding Religious miscellaneous Pictorial; Caption Upper Cover; Colour Red; Edge Unspecified exhibition history ...
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Keywords: Gallican Psalter with canticles (the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter') - Upper Cover (Add ms 37768).jpg Style Treasure binding Religious miscellaneous Pictorial; Caption Upper Cover; Colour Red; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Onlaid; Cover Material Metal Silk Leather unspecified Silve Origin Germany Aachen or Northern France Tours Provenance The court of the Emperor Lothar at Aachen probably made for a sister of the Emperor Binding has been added to Wooden boards covered on the outside with brown leather and over that with dark red silk with 4 strips of parchment from a 13th century manuscript inside the front and back covers Silver corner-guards and silver clasps on red velvet bands A large silver-gilt medallion showing a bearded and moustached head in profile wearing a crown or helmet similar to heads of the seals of Louis and Lothar perhaps of the 9th century has been attached to the upper outside cover; this is enclosed in a framework of silver-gilt with a flat conventional leaf-pattern probably of a later date 10th or 11th century The outside lower cover has been slightly hollowed for a 12th-century ivory figure of King David seated with a harp This figure has been removed and is now stored separately object history Text 9c; Germany/France ; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Germany place of discovery Unspecified British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000018500 ImageId ImageId 57130 Copyright BL Gallican Psalter with canticles the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter' Uploaded with GWToolset Gallican Psalter with canticles the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter' - Upper Cover Add ms 37768 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/add_ms_37768_fblefr jpg Bookbinding 13th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings
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