The Alexis in the Saint Albans Psalter

A Look into the Heart of the Matter (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

by Rach Bullington

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Published October 1, 1991 by Routledge .
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Subjects:

• Essays, journals, letters & other prose works,
• Literary studies: classical, early & medieval,
• Religion,
• Manuscripts,
• St. Albans,
• French Prose,
• Medieval Literature - History And Criticism,
• Poetry,
• French,
• England,
• Manuscripts, Medieval,
• Continental European,
• General,
• Alexius,
• Literary Criticism & Collections / General,
• Vie de saint Alexis,
• Saint,
• Alexius,,
• Christian poetry, French,
• In literature,
• Psalters

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The Physical Object
Format	Hardcover
Number of Pages	282
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL8121914M
ISBN 10	0824040384
ISBN 10	9780824040383

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Albans Psalter and the Life of St. Alexis, both art scholars and philologists have ignored the bulk of the text of the St. Albans Psalter. Rather, they pmsue forms of scholarship which particularize the Psalter. They seem to prefer to show how their dissection of the manuscript relates to dissections of other manuscripts, ot to place it.   The St. Albans Psalter is one of the most important, famous, and puzzling books produced in 12th-century England. It was probably created between and at St. Albans Abbey. The manuscript s powerfully drawn figures and saturated colours are distinct from those in previous Anglo-Saxon painting and signal the arrival of the Romanesque.

The manuscript comprises four elements: a calendar, a biblical picture-cycle, a vernacular saint's life in verse, and a psalter. The presence of the Chanson d'Alexis in the manuscript is puzzling Author: Donald Matthew. script originally formed a part of the Saint Albans Psalter, a book copied for Christine, prioress of Marky ate, not later than 12 Between and Ralph Flambard, Bishop of Durham, built a chapel at St. Albans to honor Alexis. The "amiable cançun" contained in Christine's Psalter represents, I . of the first quire of the Psalter, pages 73/74 and 91/92, was written in a different, slightly later script than the rest of the Psalter. In other words the bifolio was evi dently rewritten when it was decided to preface the Psalter with the quire contain ing the Vie de saint Alexis .

The scribe of this obit is generally believed to have supplied rubrics for the psalms in the Psalter which would support the view that ‘this’ psalter is actually the one we have, and not another, as proposed by M. Powell, ‘Making the Psalter of Christina of Markyate (the St Albans Psalter)’, Viator, 36 (), –Cited by: 2. Known as the Saint Albans Psalter or the Psalter of Christina of Markyate. Richly decorated with pictures and illuminated initials. Includes a calendar, "Life of Alexis" in Anglo-Norman, Gregory the Great's le; Illustrations: Ten figures. Figure One The Three Women at the Tomb, and Mary Magdalene's Annunciation to the Apostles (Hildesheim. Evidence from the text and illustrations suggest that the St Albans Psalter was created for Christina of Markyate, an anchoress, (b. c. , d. after ) by Geoffrey de Gorham (or Gorron), Abbot of St Albans () (sourcesource.