File:Gallican Psalter with canticles (the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter') - Upper Cover (Add ms 37768).jpg

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Gallican Psalter with canticles (the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter')
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Gallican Psalter with canticles (the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter')
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Style: Treasure binding|Religious miscellaneous|Pictorial; Caption: Upper Cover; Colour: Red; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 13c
Medium Decorative Technique: Onlaid; Cover Material: Metal|Silk|Leather (unspecified)|Silve
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Shelfmark: Add ms 37768
Place of creation Binding: Germany
Object history Text: 9c; Germany/France?; Unspecified
Notes Origin: Germany, Aachen or Northern France, Tours. Provenance: The court of the Emperor Lothar at Aachen, probably made for a sister of the Emperor. Binding has been added to. Wooden boards covered on the outside with brown leather, and over that with dark red silk, with 4 strips of parchment from a 13th century manuscript inside the front and back covers. Silver corner-guards and silver clasps on red velvet bands. A large silver-gilt medallion showing a bearded and moustached head in profile wearing a crown or helmet (similar to heads of the seals of Louis and Lothar), perhaps of the 9th century, has been attached to the upper outside cover; this is enclosed in a framework of silver-gilt with a flat conventional leaf-pattern, probably of a later date (?10th or 11th century). The outside lower cover has been slightly hollowed for a 12th-century ivory figure of King David, seated, with a harp. This figure has been removed and is now stored separately.
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