The Luttrell Psalter - The Beauty of Books: Medieval Masterpieces, preview - BBC Four

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The Luttrell Psalter takes its name from its patron, Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, a wealthy English landowner in Lincolnshire. Its quality and character suggest that it was produced at enormous cost, and it's thought to have been commissioned between 1330 and Sir Geoffrey's death in 1345.

It's usual for devotional books to be decorated, but these margins are dense with human activity. Almost every aspect of the countryside is depicted. So, are they documentary images or do they carry a more complicated message?

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[sabinazonno]

I'd like to personally examine it!

[meeshkala]

Oh how lovely to see this personification of history preserved and shared with this BBC broadcast. To even think of having lived any time between 1100 A.D. to the 1500's would have been most difficult but MOST MIRACULOUS indeed. How lucky we are today to revisit that time.

[vert78]

Lovely

[duncanh100]

fantasmagoria!!!

[biologyprodigy]

love that buggy eyed guy lol

[22may95]

i dont get it

[singing4hope]

beautiful

[AnotherFallen1]

That's just beautiful. I can hardly fathom sitting there reading that first hand.

[catty200100]

can i just say first :)