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The leaf comes from the Eadwine Psalter, so called because the volume has an introductory portrait of the scribe Eadwine, a monk at Christ Church, Canterbury from about 1155-60. It is one of four surviving leaves (the others are in the British Library and in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York). These leaves are painted on both sides and between them contain by far the largest series of 12th-century New Testament illustration to survive in England or anywhere else. The profusion of tiny scenes giving the effect of a medieval comic strip is unique for its period.
This is one of the introductory leaves to the Psalter; each leaf was divided into compartments to tell the story of King David, the author of the Psalms, and the life of Christ, which was foretold in the Psalms. The four leaves were probably detached from the Eadwine Psalter at some time around 1600, when Thomas Nevile, Dean of Canterbury from 1597 to 1615, gave the book to Trinity College, Cambridge, where it remains today.
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