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Saint Louis Psalter, fol. 30v

A page from the Saint Louis Psalter illuminating the binding of Isaac, where Abraham raises the knife and the angel stays his hand on Mount Moriah (Genesis 22). A folio in tempera and gold on parchment from Gothic France (c. 1260).

Saint Louis Psalter, fol. 30v by Master of the Saint Louis Psalter depicting Genesis 22:1
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Depicted passages

Genesis 22:1-14Primary

About Master of the Saint Louis Psalter

French (Gothic)

Anonymous Parisian illuminators who, c. 1255–1270, produced the Psalter of Saint Louis (BnF Latin 10525) for King Louis IX — one of the supreme achievements of Gothic illumination.

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