MINIATURIST, French
(active 1190s in northern France)

Ingeborg Psalter

c. 1195
Manuscript (Ms. 9), 304 x 204 mm
Musée Condé, Chantilly

The picture shows a page from the Ingeborg Psalter representing the Pentecost.

Beside the Bibles, the psalter was a popular type of manuscript in the twelfth century. The psalter was a private devotional book, often owned by people in some religious vocation. The psalters are expensive picture books with long series of illustrations prefaced to the main text.

The Ingeborg Psalter was owned by the French queen Ingeborg, wife of Philip Augustus. It is an example of this type of devotional manual.