A large number of elaborate miniatures of a decisively new style and design greatly influenced the art of illumination in the Gothic period. Some of the psalms are illuminated with ornate figural initials depicting scenes from the life of David. The beginnings of the psalms are rubricated with ornamental initials. The manuscript is named after its first owner, Ingeborg, a Danish princess and spouse of King Philip II of France, who was expelled by her husband for unknown reasons shortly after their wedding. The three-dimensional qualities of the figures, their proportions, and their expressive movements stand out as essential innovative elements in the emerging Gothic style of the early 1200’s. The illuminations in this work represent a turning point in the history of European painting, when artists left behind abstract and highly stylized forms in favor of a more naturalistic representation of the world. Produced around 1195 in northeastern France, the Ingeborg Psalter is written in Latin with two flyleafs of inscriptions in French. PSAUTIER D’INGEBURGE DE DANEMARK (INGEBORG PSALTER) The Rare Books Department has facsimiles of two of the medieval manuscripts Prof. Jerry Root is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature in the Department of World Languages and Culture at The University of Utah. The author argues that the legend is a sustained meditation on the power of images, its popularity corresponding with the rise of their role in portraying medieval identity and salvation, and in acting as portals between the limits of the material and the possibilities of the spiritual world.” Through a wide range of manuscript illuminations and a selection of French texts, the book explores visual and textual representations of the legend, setting it in its social, cultural and material contexts, and showing how it explores medieval anxieties concerning salvation and identity. It is illustrated in a variety of media: texts, stained glass, sculpture, and manuscript illuminations. Later repentant, he seeks out a church and a statue of the Virgin she appears to him, and he is transformed from apostate to saint. A pious clerk refuses a promotion, is demoted, becomes furious and makes a contract with the Devil. The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text & Imageįrom the publisher’s website: “The legend of Theophilus stages an iconic medieval story, its widespread popularity attesting to its grip on the imagination. “The legend’s popularity is a tribute to its ability to make the plight of individual salvation tangible and visible at a time when that salvation must seem highly uncertain.” - from the Introduction
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