Tomić Psalter
c. 1360
An illuminated psalter of the Tarnovo school, with over a hundred marginal miniatures.
The object
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Why it matters
One of the three books that made the cultural brilliance of Ivan Alexander's reign — with the Vatican Manasses and the London Tetraevangelia. The sources are unanimous that the tsar cared about books as objects: he had a good eye, and he commissioned the three most splendid manuscripts of the age, not only in the Bulgarian cultural space.
The three were deliberately complementary: a world chronicle, the four Gospels, and a psalter — the whole of the knowledge a ruler and his family needed. Between them they carry 554 miniatures. Ivan Alexander already owned the Sofia Psalter of 1337; this one replaced a well-made but unillustrated book with a fully painted one.
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Description
- Date
- c. 1360
- Language
- Middle Bulgarian
- Script
- Uncial
- Material
- Parchment
- Held at
- State Historical Museum
- Place
- Moscow
- Shelfmark
- Муз. 2752