The Psalter of Louis X () is an illuminated psalter that belonged to King Louis X of France and his first wife, Queen Margaret. It is now in the library of Tournai Cathedral, shelfmark Tournai, Archives et Bibliothèque de la Cathédrale, B.C.T. A 17.
The psalter was made around 1315. It has 256 leaves of parchment (equal to 512 pages of text). It contains a calendar, the Vulgate Latin text of the biblical Book of Psalms, and a Litany of the Saints in addition to two short .Lucien Fourez, "Le Psautier de Louis le Hutin, 1315", Revue belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'art 15 (1945): 101–115. It contains a decoration featuring a cat.„In one illustration in The Psalter of Louis Le Hutin (1314) a grotesque with a lion's hindquarters...“
Gallery The psalter contains several drolleries:
References
External links Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts