Master of the Bristol Psalter1070

Chaldean Soldiers with Hebrew Captives (Bristol Psalter)

A page from the Byzantine Bristol Psalter illustrating Psalm 137, where the Hebrew captives weep in Babylon and remember Jerusalem (Psalm 137). An illuminated manuscript in tempera on parchment, made around 1070.

Chaldean Soldiers with Hebrew Captives (Bristol Psalter) by Master of the Bristol Psalter depicting Psalms 137:1
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Depicted passages

Psalms 137:1-9Primary

About Master of the Bristol Psalter

Byzantine

Anonymous 11th-century Byzantine illuminator responsible for the Bristol Psalter (BL Add MS 40731), a marginal psalter in the Khludov tradition.

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