Carrow Psalter, David kneeling in prayer at altar below hand of God, This English manuscript was made in East Anglia in the mid-thirteenth-century for a patron with special veneration for St. Olaf, whose life and martyrdom is prominently portrayed in the 'Beatus' initial of Psalm 1. Known as the 'Carrow Psalter,' due to its later use by the nunnery of Carrow near Norwich, it is more accurately described as a Psalter-hours, as it contains the Office of the Dead, the Hours of the Virgin, and Collects

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