MINIATURIST, English
(active in 14th century)

Ormesby Psalter

14th century
Manuscript (Ms. Douce 366)
Bodleian Library, Oxford

On this crowded page (folio 72) the high quality, irregular frame is remarkable. A larger D and a smaller T initial are related to the text: in the D initial the three temptations of Christ in the desert are depicted.

Both the figurative initials and the decoration were made in the same workshop (probably in Bury St Edmunds) by two different miniaturists. The codex received its name from Robert Ormesby, a monk who dedicated the codex to the prior of a convent in Norwich.




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