Lothar Psalter
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The Lothar Psalter (shelfmark London, British Library, Add. MS 37768) is an illuminated manuscript of the Psalms in Latin.
The Lothar Psalter is a parchment codex that measures 230 by 190 millimetres (9.1 in × 7.5 in). It contains 179 leaves, 172 of them numbered. It was produced between 842 and 855 for the Emperor Lothar I. It belongs to the Lothar palace school (Hofschule) group of manuscripts or Lothar-Gruppe. It is in fact the only one of the group that is indisputably connected to Lothar. The group is traditionally believes to have been produced at the Palace of Aachen, although the psalter was possibly made at the Abbey of Saint Martin's in Tours. Its binding is ninth-century. The front cover contains a silver-gilt medallion depicting Lothar.
The first text is a prayer composed by one of Lothar's sisters or daughters.
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