The Luttrell Psalter: A Facsimile

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The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe (British Library, Faksimile Verlag & Toronto University Press: London , Lucerne & Toronto 2003), pp. 479. Soon after the main image of Sir Geoffrey the illustrations end. Folios 215-298 contain only text, very plain after what’s gone before. Finally, folios 298-309 contain staves of music used in services. Our Family Station in St Pancras is open from 10.00-12.00 every Friday and we're continuing to welcome schools, as well as families and adult learners to our courses and access events. All our in-person and livestreamed events are going ahead. Other services

Luttrell, a wealthy land owner, felt his death was coming and wanted to account for all his actions, as is stated in the colophon of the psalter. [4] The purpose of the manuscript was to help with the provisions for his will, in which Luttrell requested twenty chaplains to recite masses for a five-year period after his death (believed to speed the soul's passage through Purgatory) and clerks to recite the Psalms, and other activities for stated levels of monetary remuneration. [7]

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J. Attwood and M. P. Brown, ‘Medieval Christian Biblical Manuscripts: the Art of Writing and Illumination’ in J. Pattengale et al, eds, The Book of Books: Biblical Canon, Dissemination and its People (Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, 2013), pp. 82-99. A psalter is a collection of religious texts, including psalms, prayers and a calendar of Church feast-days, written in Latin on vellum or parchment. On 166v the Commentary states "Grotesque in lower margin". There is no grotesque in the lower margin. Then two sentences later the Commentary describes what is actually in the lower margin - "In the lower margin, a housewife holding a spindle....". Manuscript Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, mounted, being assisted by his wife and daughter-in-law. Folio 202v. Geoffrey and Agnes had six children, of whom Andrew, born in 1313, was their heir. Andrew married Beatrice le Scrope, a very advantageous marriage as Beatrice’s father was a wealthy lawyer, one of the leading judges in the country and ultimately Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. Luttrell pride in its connections by marriage is reflected in the inclusion in the Psalter of the coats of arms of the Luttrells, Suttons and le Scropes.

co-edited the commemorative book / exhibition catalogue and planned exhibition, both of which were highly successful The other major document associated with Sir Geoffrey is his will which has been described as one of the most generous religious bequests of the period. I can’t find an easily-accessible version of the will but years ago I did take notes from the one place I have found it – a 1932 edition of the Psalter edited by E.G. Miller. Richard K Emmerson and PJP Goldberg, ‘’ The Lord Geoffrey had me made’: Lordship and Labour in the Luttrell Psalter’ in JS Bothwell et al (eds), The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England, 2000. Gerald of Wales and the 'Marvels of the East': the role of the author in the development of marginal illustration'

The Life of St Fursey: what we know and why it matters', The Inaugural Fursey Lecture (Diocese of Norwich: Norwich, 2001).