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This celebrated manuscript, commissioned by a wealthy landowner in the first half of the 14th century, is one of the most striking to survive from the Middle Ages. Painted in rich colours embellished with gold and silver, with vitality and sometimes bizarre inventiveness of decoration, this manuscript is unlike virtually any other. The manuscript is named by modern scholars after its original patron, whose picture appears in the book. The style of the illumination shows that Sir Geoffrey Luttrell commissioned the Psalter some time between 1320 and 1340. The Luttrell Psalter was the work of one scribe and at least five artists, none of whose names are known. It was probably produced in Lincoln.
By the 14th century the tournament had become less popular than the joust, a single combat between mounted knights armed with lances. The miniature on folio 20v shows Sir Geoffrey Luttrell in full jousting armour, being seen off by his wife and daughter-in-law.
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