ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the cycle of illustrations in the margins of the 11th-century Bury St Edmunds Psalter. The Bury St Edmunds Psalter is one of the most celebrated manuscripts surviving from 11th-century England. The chapter re-examines some of the observations of Robert Harris and Adelheid Heimann, and further defines the debts of the Bury artist in the light of connections between Bury and the Harley Psalter. The model that Odbert Psalter and Bury shared was itself indebted to another manuscript altogether, the Utrecht Psalter. The Harley Psalter was made over a period of about one hundred years at Christ Church, Canterbury. There is good evidence of contacts between Christ Church and Bury St Edmunds, and between Christ Church and Odbert’s home, St-Bertin. A member of the marginal recension that looked remarkably like Bury must have been taken from Christ Church to Bury St Edmunds in the 11th century.
