psalter

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Aleys cherishes the tiny, exquisite psalter her mother inherited from an abbess aunt.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

Aleys treasures 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

Thus the gods might weave a great Romance Singing to the sighs of flute and psalter; Till the last of all the many chants, And the priestess sinks before the altar.

From Challenge by Untermeyer, Louis