The Ingeborg Psalter is a late 12th century illuminated

Illuminated manuscript

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 Psalter

Psalter

A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the later medieval emergence of the book of hours, psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons and were...

 now housed in the Musée Condé of Chantilly

Chantilly, Oise

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, France

France

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.

It was created about 1195 in northern France

France

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 for Ingeborg of Denmark

Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France

Ingeborg was a Danish-born queen consort of France.She was a daughter of Valdemar I of Denmark and Sofia of Minsk. Her maternal grandparents were Volodar of Minsk and Richeza of Poland...

, wife of King Philip II of France

Philip II of France

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. It is unknown who commissioned the Psalter for Ingeborg, but it may have been commissioned by either Stephen of Tournai

Stephen of Tournai

Stephen of Tournai, born in 1128 and died in 1203, was a Canon regular of Sainte-Geneviève , and Roman Catholic canonist who became bishop of Tournai in 1192.-Biography:He was born at Orléans in 1128; died at Tournai in September 1203...

 or Eleanor of Vernandois, Countess of Beaumont-sur-Oise

Beaumont-sur-Oise

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. It is one of the most significant surviving examples of early Gothic painting.

The manuscript

Manuscript

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 was prayerbook for private devotionals and contains a calendar, the 150 Psalms

Psalms

The Book of Psalms , commonly referred to simply as Psalms, is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible...

 in Latin

Latin

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 plus other liturgical texts. There are 200 extent folios. The text is written in an early Gothic minuscule.