Have you ever wondered about the journey that a medieval manuscript has taken all the way from the remote past until it arrives in a modern-day library? How many people have studied its pages, and what have they used it for?
In this talk, we will be answering those questions in relation to one particular manuscript: the Southampton Psalter, an illuminated Irish psalm book, dating to around 1,000 AD and now held in St John's College, Cambridge. This fascinating manuscript has lived through multiple 'lives' since its creation in medieval Ireland, in its roles as a lavishly decorated display book, highly annotated learning resource for scholars and valued object of antiquity.
Link to further information: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/many-lives-manuscript-introducing-southampton-psalter
