Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
“It was like holding Chartres Cathedral in my hand,” said Roger Wieck, the Morgan's Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, about doing research on a Gothic Psalter on loan from the Free Library of Philadelphia. With rich colors and stunning illuminations, this is the most beautiful Gothic Psalter in all of North America.
On view through January 4, 2026 in “Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life,” this volume is a perfect example of how illuminations were used to find your way through the Psalms, as they didn’t have page or folio numbers. The Gothic Psalter was one of the most important books of the High Middle Ages (approx. 1000 - 1300), as the ordained needed to pray through all 150 Psalms every week.
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“It was like holding Chartres Cathedral in my hand,” said Roger Wieck, the Morgan's Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, about doing research on a Gothic Psalter on loan from the Free Library of Philadelphia. With rich colors and stunning illuminations, this is the most beautiful Gothic Psalter in all of North America.
On view through January 4, 2026 in “Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life,” this volume is a perfect example of how illuminations were used to find your way through the Psalms, as they didn’t have page or folio numbers. The Gothic Psalter was one of the most important books of the High Middle Ages (approx. 1000 - 1300), as the ordained needed to pray through all 150 Psalms every week.
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Video by SandenWolff
