psalters

Not only are religious books in Latin, psalters, missals and decretals copied and collected in monasteries, but also the ancient classics.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

He was no reader, and had brought few books, his whole library comprising but thirty-one volumes, and these mostly religious works, such as psalters, missals, breviaries, and the like.

Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII Charles Morris 1877

They include graduals, antiphonals, diurnals, collectars, and psalters. 77 Some of these texts are decorated with elaborate pictorial elements and others are purely utilitarian.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

Latin psalters and history texts in the 1200s were replete with miniature images of children playing pranks and men battling monsters.

Datebook | Aug. 28-Sep. 3 2009

And there they laid his corpse in the body of the quire, and sang and read many psalters and prayers over him and about him.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

The strange howls of this unearthly instrument filtered through the sound of pianos, harpsichords, psalters, clavichords, virginals and three gigantic electric organs pumping at full strength.

Pagan Passions Laurence M. Janifer 1967

Several of these descriptions are highly curious; particularly the last item, which describes one of the "glossed" psalters as being "_in pawn_," a fact which, in itself, tells a history of the then condition of the house.

Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849 Various

They thus procured for the monastery twenty-eight notable volumes (_volumina notabilia_), also eight psalters, a book of collects,

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

Doubtless the holy Patriarch wished his brethren to have psalters and breviaries, since they were obliged to say the Divine Office.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

To excite himself to compunction and to the divine praise, he made a collection of pathetic sentences, some of which he placed at the end of each psalm; several of which are found in certain manuscript psalters, as Fleury takes notice.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler