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Theodore Psalter, Ps. 102

A page from the Theodore Psalter illustrating the afflicted one's lament, likening himself to a desert owl among the ruins and a lonely bird upon the housetop (Psalms 102). A tempera-on-parchment miniature painted by the Byzantine scribe Theodore of Caesarea in 1066.

Theodore Psalter, Ps. 102 by Theodore of Caesarea depicting Psalms 102:6
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About Theodore of Caesarea

1000-1080 · Byzantine

Byzantine monk-illuminator who in 1066 produced the Theodore Psalter (BL Add MS 19352) at the Stoudios Monastery in Constantinople — one of the most fully illustrated marginal psalters surviving from the post-iconoclastic period.