Kristen Collins is associate curator in the Department of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Peter Kidd is a freelance researcher specializing in medieval manuscripts. Nancy Turner is manuscripts conservator in the Department of Paper Conservation at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
"St. Albans Psalter: Painting and Prayer in Medieval England
investigates the style, iconography, themes and different sections
of the manuscript, its original purpose and several of its
continuing mysteries."--Church Building & Heritage Review
"[St. Albans Psalter is] both impressive in its scholarship and
perfectly readable for the interested layperson."--Los Angeles
Times
"[This book] reveal[s] new information on . . . the fine art of
manuscript illumination. . . . In a mind-boggling act of
restoration, the Getty removed the painted leaves of the book from
its original binding in order to study and compare them."-Western
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