It has the earliest known cycle of prefatory miniatures in a psalter (f. 7v–16r), a form which became very popular over the following centuries;[2] the 12th-century St. Albans Psalter has one of the best known and fullest of such cycles. The Tiberius cycle depicts the lives of David and Christ, linking them typologically. The miniatures are in a so-called "third style" of late Anglo-Saxon art, "in which the Winchester and Utrecht styles fused and assumed an even greater monumentality". Most of them use with great expressiveness the English tinted outline drawing style which had developed over the previous century;[3] a few use a fully painted style, for example f. 30v, with a portrait of the enthroned David.
Its estimated date has been rather mobile in recent years, moving from "mid-11th century",[4] or "around 1050",[5] to "3rd quarter of the 11th century" according to the British Library in 2016.[6]
The manuscript is incomplete and was damaged in the Cotton Library fire of 1731, removing the top corners of each of the first few pages. It was rebound in 1894, with the folios mounted individually into a book with a larger page size.[7] The 129 original pages are about 248 x 146 mm. After initial material, there are 24 pages with drawings, 5 illustrating the life of David and 11 that of Christ.[8] There is a large initial and illuminated border with Winchester style acanthus foliage at the beginning of the main sections of the book, such as the start of Psalm 1 (f. 31r).
There is a continuous interlinear gloss in Old English of the psalms, and other vernacular material.[9]
^BL, noting other later additions from "2nd half of the 12th century"; a date in the 3rd quarter is also preferred by: Michael Lapidge, Simon Keynes, Malcolm Godden, Anglo-Saxon England, Volume 20, Cambridge University Press (2007), p. 161
Openshaw, K. M., 'The Battle between Christ and Satan in the Tiberius Psalter', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 52 (1989), 14–33.
Further reading
Campbell, A. P., ed., The Tiberius Psalter, Edited from British Museum MS Cotton Tiberius C vi., Ottawa Medieval Studies, 2 (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1974).
Pulsiano, Phillip, '233. London, British Library Cotton Tiberius C. vi: "Tiberius Psalter"', in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Binghamton, NY: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1994), vol. 2: Psalters I, pp. 38–42.
Wormald, Francis, 'An English, Eleventh-Century Psalter with Pictures: British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius C.VI.', in Collected Writings: I. Studies in Medieval Art from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries, ed. by J. J. G Alexander et al., 123-37 + plates (London: Harvey Miller Publishers; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 180–81
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