The Breslau Psalter
Psalter with miniatures and historiated initials
Texts and Images
Psalms 1, 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 101 and 109 introduced the ten sections into which medieval Psalters were often divided. Each of these ten Psalms is preceded by full-page miniatures and opens with a large historiated initial. The remaining 140 Psalms received small miniatures in the borders, usually illustrating their opening verse or main theme.
The Three Women and the Angel at the Tomb
This, one of Hand A’s most impressive compositions, displays his salient features, including the elaborately painted drapery and the gold-tooled halos. It also shows his familiarity with iconographic compositions by the Gaibana Master, as it resembles the painting of the same subject in the Paduan Epistolary.