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The Digital Walters - W.330, Psalter

W.330, Psalter Abstract

This Psalter was created in Southern Italy, likely Naples, in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. The litany (fols. 158v - 161r) suggests it was for Cistercian use. It contains six high-quality miniatures attributed to the Neopolitan illuminator Cristoforo Magorana (though the historiated initial of David playing a psaltry on fol. 15r may have been done by another hand), who from 1480-1492 worked at the court of Ferdinand I of Aragon. To date, almost forty manuscripts have been attributed to the artist. The Walters manuscript contains two full-page miniatures, one showing the Tree of Jesse and the other the Man of Sorrows. The Tree of Jesse (described in Isaiah 1:11) shows the ancestry of Christ rising from Jesse of Bethlehem, the father of King David who is depicted on the facing folio (171r). In this depiction Jesse is shown on the trunk of the tree, but it actually rises from Abraham. Surrounding Abraham is a crowd of Prophets each with scrolls with verses believed to prophecy the coming of Christ. The miniature with the Man of Sorrows shows Christ standing in his tomb and surrounded by the objects associated with the Passion (arma Christi). The miniature follows a specific Man of Sorrows iconography that originated in an early-fourteenth century mosaic icon from Constantinople that most likely arrived in Italy ca. 1380. The mosaic panel was believed to be an authentic representation of St. Gregory's vision of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and this type of image encouraged the viewer to meditate on the suffering of Christ while reading the Passion narratives that follow. The humanist script and white-vine initials place the Walters Psalter firmly within the Humanist tradition of the late fifteenth century. Remnants of black velvet suggest this book once had a chemise binding, comparable to W.294 and W.480. Peter Kidd has suggested that the manuscript may have been written by Pietro Ursuleo of Capua (d. 1483).

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