psalter

The other manuscripts range from the 13th-century lavishly illustrated book known as the “Psalter of Saint Louis” all the way to “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir.

This spring, however, brings us “Cruise of Shadows,” which contains nothing but masterpieces, notably “The Gloomy Alley” and “The Mainz Psalter.”

The Breeches Edition recently returned to Pittsburgh also had an attached hymnal known as a metrical Psalter - the book of Psalms set to musical notation, he said.

The Copenhagen Psalter contains a collect for peace, asking that we “may pass our time in rest and quietness.”

In religious and monarchical contexts, kneeling is a form of worship or deference — the earliest known usage of the word is in the Vespasian Psalter, an illustrated book of religious texts from around 825 A.D.