Psalter of St. Louis

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1v card, with a miniature depicting the sacrifice of Cain and Abel

Psalter of St. Ludwika - illuminated 13th-century Latin psalter. It is located in the collection of the French National Library (signature MS Latin 10525).

The book was made for King Louis IX (1226-1270), probably after the return of the ruler of the Sixth Crusade in 1254. It was the property of his successors to the days of Charles V the Wise (1364-1380), who gave her to her daughter Maria, a nun in the Dominican monastery of Poissy. The Psalter was in the monastery until 1793, when it was robbed during the French Revolution and fell into the hands of a Parisian bookkeeper who sold it to Russian prince Aleksandr Golovov. In 1811, the book was bought by a cavalry officer from Golovkin, the bibliophile Mikhail Golitsyn. In 1818, he was bought by the French ambassador in St. Petersburg and given to King Ludwig XVIII, who placed it in the French National Library.

The manuscript is 205 × 150 mm in size and consists of 162 folio cards, framed in wood covered with blue velvet and gilt. The book begins with a series of 78 miniatures depicting stories from the Old Testament, from Cain and Abel to Saul's choice for King of Israel. Characters are presented against the background of architectural elements of Gothic buildings. After the series of miniatures there is a calendar with recorded death dates of members of the immediate family Ludwika IX. Psalms are divided into 8 parts, each of which begins with a decorative initiation.

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