Table of Contents
Introduction
Modern History
Medieval Owners
The Book as a Book
The Puzzle
Making the Ormesby Psalter
The First Campaign
The Second Campaign: Bardolfs, Foliots and the Earl of Surrey
The Jesse Master
The Ormesby Master
The Third Campaign: Robert of Ormesby and Norwich Cathedral
Priory
The Earl of Ufford and the Final Campaign
The Ormesby Psalter: main liturgical divisions
Further Reading
List of illustrations
Picture credits
Appendix Description of the manuscript
Provenance
Index
Frederica C.E. Law-Turner is a specialist in illuminated manuscripts and J. Clawson Mills Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
'This is a fascinating study of the puzzling luxury psalter made
for notable East Anglian families in the early years of the 14th
century. Law-Turner's meticulous analysis of the heraldry reveals
how the complex relationships of the Foliots and the Bardolfs,
families in the circle of John de Warenne, and their continental
links to the Dukes of Bar, impacted upon the various phases in the
production of this remarkable book. She isolates four distinct
campaigns of execution and convincingly attributes one of them to a
painter from the distinguished entourage of Renaud de Bar, Bishop
of Metz and uncle of Jeanne de Bar, wife of John VII de Warenne.
She further sheds important light on the life of Robert of Ormesby
and his revisions to the book made before he donated it to Norwich
Cathedral Priory, where it underwent still more changes of
rebinding and repair by an artist dubbed by Sydney Cockerell as
"the Cheap Finisher".'
*Alison Stones*
'The majestic Ormesby Psalter is a triumph of medieval English
manuscript illumination. Frederica Law-Turner clearly and elegantly
explains the book’s often enigmatic imagery. The fascinating
history of the tome, which took some three quarters of a century to
make, reads like one of Ellis Peters’ Chronicles of Brother
Cadfael. The saga involves an engagement, a stolen wardship, an
ambitious ecclesiastic, and a falling steeple – a story well
told.'
*Roger S. Wieck*
'An informative and lucidly written introduction to the psalter and
a starting point for anyone interested in illumination and medieval
painting in general.'
*The Burlington Magazine*
'An informative and lucidly written introduction to the psalter and
a starting point for anyone interested in illumination and medieval
painting in general.'
*The Burlington Magazine*
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