MINIATURIST, French
(active 1190s at Saint-Bertin)

Picture Bible (Psalter-Fragment)

1190s
Manuscript (76 F 5), 95 x 60 mm
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague

This manuscript is a fragment, a Picture Bible which was probably the prefatory cycle preceding a Psalter.

This miniature depicting the Martyrdom of St Lawrence is a detail from the illumination on folio 28v of this manuscript, coming from the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Bertin in Saint-Omer (now in ruins). The saint was roasted on a gridiron.