The Luttrel Psalter

This fourteenth-century English psalter, made for the Lincolnshire knight Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, presents the Latin Psalms with a calendar, canticles, and the Office of the Dead, written by a single scribe and framed by painted initials and line-fillers. Its margins are filled with scenes of ploughing, harvest, cooking, music, and grotesque hybrids, as well as portraits of the Luttrell household. Michelle P. Brown's commentary sets the book in its manor and workshop and reads those images as a record of rural labor and patronage. The volume is a deluxe prayer book, not a modern novel of medieval life.

Bound in blue Nigerian goatskin blocked with a multicolour design by David Eccles, all page edges gold blocked, two ribbon markers. Commentary volume by Michelle P. Brown, quarter bound in buckram with paper sides. Dark blue solander case with leather label on spine. (Most expensive book produced by the FS allowing for inflation).