ABSTRACT
An illuminated psalter (London, B.L., Egerton 1139) in Latin, commonly known as the Queen Melisende Psalter, ranks among the most famous artefacts from the Latin East. It is a manuscript de grand luxe made, with the likely exception of its calendar, in Jerusalem in the middle of the twelfth century. The lavishness of its decoration indicates that the codex was made for a person of high social standing. The use of the term peccatrix, e.g. on fols 21 and 198, and the recurrence of adjectives with feminine endings in the prayers, e.g. 'Visita me infirmam' (fol. 199v) show that its first owner was a woman.
