psalter
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In the summer of 2006, a workman discovered a 1,200-year-old psalter while driving a bulldozer through an Irish bog.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Aleys cherishes the tiny, exquisite psalter her mother inherited from an abbess aunt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
I felt slightly giddy to see Henry VIII’s own psalter — a 1540 illustrated Book of Psalms — in which the king’s distinctly porcine features have been transposed onto the biblical King David.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
Once again, the Tudors’ cosmopolitanism is evident: The psalter was created in London, but the tempera-on-parchment illustrations are attributed to Jean Mallard, who was French.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
The choir chanted “Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations,” and then the Episcopal rector, Rev. Mr. Leffingwell, read from the psalter, and Rev. Dr. Daggett followed with prayer.
From Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl by Caroline Cowles Richards
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