Psalter, Annunciation, Walters Manuscript W.78, fol. 1r

This psalter was produced in a monastery in the diocese of Augsburg in the mid-thirteenth century, as shown by entries in the calendar and litany. The decoration includes six full-page miniatures, ten historiated initials, and seasonal and zodiac roundels for each month. The text has been supplied with marginal notes throughout in Latin and German, and a fourteenth-century deed discussing property of the Bazth and Ladon families has been included as a flyleaf (ii v). To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.