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Herold Vzdornov, comm. Kievskoj Psaltyri. (Kyiv Psalter of 1397) Issledovanie O Kievskoj Psaltyri (An Exploration of the Kiev Psalter) Moscow 1978. 2 vols. Hardcover in DJ. Very Good/Very Good
Quarto 172, 231 pp. Some plates tipped in. In Russian with an 11 page summary in English.
“The Kyiv Psalter, also called the Spyridon Psalter, is unique. It is the only preserved Slavonic manuscript of its kind dating to the period before the fifteenth century. It is also anachronistic, produced in 1397 but illustrated in a style typical of the eleventh century. A marginal Psalter, it was a very valuable treasure in the medieval period as “the book of Psalms is of all books, the mother.”