The Utrecht Psalter is a ninth centuryilluminatedpsalter and an important product of Carolingian art. Produced at Rheims between 816 and 835, the Psalter was sponsored by the Archbishop Ebbo just before he was deposed. The Utrecht Psalter is lavishly illustrated with lively pen and ink drawings for each psalm; some psalms are illustrated with multiple drawings. The Psalter was copied in whole three times over a few hundred year span, with copies made in other media. As a means of recording the passage of time the 9th century was that century that lasted from 801 to 900. ... In the strictest definition of illuminated manuscript, only manuscripts decorated with gold or silver, like this miniature of Christ in Majesty from the Aberdeen Bestiary (folio 4v), would be considered illuminated. ... Psalms (Tehilim תהילים, in Hebrew) is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. ... Lorsch Gospels 778-820. ... Reims (English traditionally Rheims) is a city of north-eastern France, 98 miles east-northeast of Paris. ... Psalms (Tehilim תהילים, in Hebrew) is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. ...
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