Tag: Psalter of Blanche of Castile

Unfolding a Gold-Embroidered Binding — The Royal Psalter of Sainte Chapelle

January 31, 2020February 15, 2021Giovanni Scorcioni

The floral silk fabric that once protected the Psalter of Blanche of Castile is among the three surviving medieval embroidered bindings in France. When I saw it for the first time, I couldn’t believe someone could ever produce something so detailed.

Kneeling Before a Holy Relic – The Royal Psalter of Sainte Chapelle

October 28, 2019January 10, 2020Giovanni Scorcioni

This is the story of how I got to lay my hands on the original leaves of the Psalter of Blanche of Castile. I knew that the manuscript Müller & Schindler is planning to publish in facsimile is a piece of world history, but I wasn’t expecting such a holy experience.

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