The Eadwine Psalter
Date Description Source Reference
1155 - 1160 A.D. Seven getalds and one cone tent. 

Bottom left to right. 

Red geteld, nothing distinctive. 

Blue geteld with a blue interior shown by the open flap. 

Green cone tent with a red interior, apex consisting of a red ball (on which a quail is perched) on top of a shaft, supported by a yellow diamond with an inner circle. 

Top left to right. 

Green geteld, nothing distinctive. 

Blue geteld, nothing distinctive. 

Green geteld with a red interior. 

Finally, a blue geteld with a green interior. 

Most of the getelds have the ends of the ridge pole revealed and show lines disectiong the fabric along the ridge line.

“Fig 36. Leaf from “Eadwine Psalter”, New York, PML (Pierpont Morgan Library), M. 724, recto (detail) 

“...the sixth scene on the recto of one leaf, Peirpont Morgan Library, M. 724, shows the Tribe of Israel camped in the wilderness (fig. 36). The artist has depicted eight tents. A quail, sent by the Lord, perches on one of them (Exodus 16:13). Seven tents have cross beams, and the artist has stacked them in one group of three and two groups of two. These tents are similar to those in Utrecht’s illustrations to psalm 26 (fig 37) and psalm 119. The eigth tent, which has the quail upon it is constructed like a wigwam, just like a number of Utrecht’s tents.” 

“Provenence; Canterbury, Christ Church, 1155 - 1160 A.D.”

van der Horst, K., Noel, W., and Wüstefeld, W.C..M., The Utrecht Psalter In Medieval Art, Picturing the Psalms of David, The Netherlands, 1996, p. 143 and 239.


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