An illustration from the
Great Canterbury Psalter from Christ Church Abbey, Canterbury, England, 1176-1200AD
Bibliothèque nationale de France. MS Latin 8846
f.2v Moses, David and Goliath, Saul, John the Baptist

A larger image of f.2v Moses, David and Goliath, Saul, John the Baptist, from Christ Church Abbey, Canterbury, 1176-1200AD. Bibliothèque nationale de France. MS Latin 8846.

1. Moses and the Ark 2. Moses and grapes from Canaan 3. Capture of a Canaanite city 4. Anointing of Saul by Samuel 5. Arming of David 6. David and Goliath 7. David beheads Goliath 8. David brings the head of Goliath to Saul 9. Saul falls on his sword at the Battle of Mount Gilboa 10. Anointing of David by Samuel 11. John the Baptist baptising in the Jordan River 12. The head of John the Baptist

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Titre : Psalterium Cantuariense [Psautier de Canterbury]
Auteur : Canterbury cathedral library
Date d'édition : 1176-1200
Type : manuscrit
Langue : latin
Langue : français ancien
Langue : anglo-saxon
Format : Canterbury (Christ Church). - Copié à l'abbaye Christ Church de Canterbury, sur le Psautier d'Eadwine ; cf. infra. — Écriture de différents modules : celui employé pour la version gallicane est trois fois plus gros que celui employé pour les gloses marginales, celui des autres versions et des...
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Description : Psautier triple glosé de Canterbury. Le ms. a été décrit dans Leroquais, Psautiers, II, 78-91 n° 324 et pl. LX-LXII et CIV ; Fr. Avril et al., Manuscrits enluminés de la péninsule ibérique, Paris, 1983, 93-95 n° 108 et pl. K, L, M et LIII-LV ; Fr. Avril et P. Danz-Stirnemann, Manuscrits enluminés...
Description : Le ms. inachevé parvint peu de temps après son exécution en Catalogne. Son passage dans la Librairie de Jean de Berry n'a pas été retenu par L. Delisle, La Librairie de Charles V, II, Inventaire... Jean de Berry, Paris, 1907, *227 n. 1. Le ms. a appartenu à Marguerite d'Autriche, gouvernante des...
Description : Lieu de copie : Canterbury (Christ Church)
Droits : domaine public
Identifiant : ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 8846
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Title: Psalterium Cantuariense [Canterbury Psalter]
Author : Canterbury cathedral library
Publishing date : 1176-1200
Type: manuscript
Language : Latin
Language : Old French
Language : Anglo-Saxon
Format: Canterbury (Christ Church). - Copied at Christ Church Abbey, Canterbury, from the Eadwine Psalter; cf. infra. - Writing of different modules: the one used for the Gallican version is three times larger than that used for marginal glosses, that of other versions and ...
Description: Scanning from an original document
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Description: Patronage: This manuscript was digitized as part of "France-England, 700-1200: Medieval Manuscripts of the National Library of France and the British Library, a program of the Polonsky Foundation".
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 8846 f.2v

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Referenced on p.61, Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350, Western Europe and the Crusader States by David Nicolle
129 A-D The Great Canterbury Psalter, Kent, c.1180-90
(Bib. Nat., Ms. Lat. 8846, f.2v, Paris, France)
A - ‘Goliath’; B - ‘Israelite’; C-D - ‘Decapitation of Goliath’. The first picture of Goliath (A) is virtually identical to that seen above, the only difference being that his mail chausses are of the kind which fully enclose his legs and that his round helmet has a very broad rim band. Goliath is next shown in almost identical armour (C) except that his chausses have reverted to the kind which do not protect the back of his legs. His scabbard and sword-belt are now tied around his waist, and the garment immediately beneath his mail hauberk is like the hauberk itself, cut away at the back. It is also given regularly spaced dots or circles. These are again visible at his wrists and almost certainly indicate a padded or quilted construction. An additional figure (B) has the same cutaway hauberk with a cutaway garment beneath. These must surely have been designed for cavalry warfare. Swords are straight and slightly tapering, with round or oval pommels. Some have straight quillons (A and B), one with an apparent langet (D), or slightly-curved quillons (B and C).



[The apparent langet is damage that is not on the centre-line of the blade.]