The Luttrell Psalter is one of the British Library's greatest treasures. It is an illustrated manuscript dating from the fourteenth century, and originally made for wealthy landowner Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276-1345). The superbly detailed illustrations provide a rare glimpse on to daily medieval life in Lincolnshire, as well as depicting some truly fantastical creatures and grotesques. This facsimile edition reproduces this magnificent manuscript in full, and also contains a scholarly introduction by Professor Michelle P ...
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The Luttrell Psalter is one of the British Library's greatest treasures. It is an illustrated manuscript dating from the fourteenth century, and originally made for wealthy landowner Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276-1345). The superbly detailed illustrations provide a rare glimpse on to daily medieval life in Lincolnshire, as well as depicting some truly fantastical creatures and grotesques. This facsimile edition reproduces this magnificent manuscript in full, and also contains a scholarly introduction by Professor Michelle P Brown, putting the work in its historical context. (British Library 2006) Very few people before have had the chance to turn and admire these wonderful pages; now it is open to everyone to do so in the comfort and leisure of their own home. This is a rare opportunity to own a superlative facsimile of one of the greatest medieval manuscripts anywhere in the world, and we anticipate demand to be high.
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First edition thus (hardback), limited to 1480 numbered copies, of which this is copy number 670. 4to (36cm by 26cm), c. 500pp. Bound in full blue Nigerian Goatskin Leather, blocked with a design by David Eccles, all edges gilt, and housed in the original blue cloth solander box. Also included is a 206-page hardback octavo commentary volume by Michelle P Brown. The books and the solander box are in excellent condition.
