Stoudios Monastery in Constantinople, 1066

Tempora and gold on vellum (​208 fol.)

The British Library

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The psalter is named after its saint, the priest Theodore, from the Cappadocian city of Caesarea. He later emigrated the capital, where he became a monk at the celebrated Stoudios Monastery. In 1066, he copied the Psalms and the Odes for the use of the monastery’s abbot, Michael.