German edition, front cover Details in English and German.
The leaves exbibited will be rotated so that it will be possibe to see the entire manuscript over the course of three visits.
The official programme is now available at last.
A new facsimile of the Psalter has now (July) been published in English and German editions by Müller & Schindler. It is accompanied by a commentary volume incorporating new research and new discoveries. The commentary volume (on its own) may be purchased from the publisher for 65 Euro.
German edition, front cover
English Edition, title page
Publication is announced for July 2010 (formerly July 2008) of Morgan Powell, Woman in the Mirror: Gender, Literacy, and the Media Revolution of the Twelfth Century, including a chapter 'The Psalter of Christina of Markyate: Image, Narrative and the sponsa corporaliter'.
Joanna Royle has submitted her PhD thesis,Transitional Holiness in the Twelfth Century: The Social and Spiritual Identity of Domina Christina of Markyate, to the University of Glasgow
Henrietta Leyser and Samuel Fanous, editors of, and contributors to Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-Century Holy Woman(London, 2005) (partially availablefrom Google Books) have published The Life of Christina of Markyate a revised translation of the Life of Christina of Markyate for the Oxford World Classics series. It is available from Amazon.
A Johns Hopkins PhD on the Alexis quire by Kathryn (Kate) Gerry was completed in 2007.
The so-called 'Golden' Psalter, formerly owned by the late Brian Cron, has been acquired by the British library and is now their Add. MS 81084
A detailed description, with up-to-date bibliography, and images of the Pierpont Morgan Library's Life of St Edmund are available on their Corsair web catalogue.
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