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Click to view high resolution image Title: Luttrell Family at Table Creator: Description: Accompanying image for Psalm 114, a song of thanksgiving for deliverance from trouble. This folio and the one preceding it (fol. 207v) display bas-de-page scenes depicting the preparation and serving of a meal. A servant crosses over from the previous folio, delivering the food that was prepared there. Geoffrey Luttrell sits at the center surrounded by members of his household including his wife and daughter-in-law as well as two Dominican friars. There are several large silver vessels on the table and a cupbearer has just given Geoffrey a large silver cup from which he drinks. The Eucharistic overtones of the image become clear when considered in relation to another line from Psalm 114: "I will take the chalice of salvation…" Source: Wikimedia Commons Rights: Public domain Subject (See Also): Dominican Order Donor Portraits Eating Family Heraldry Luttrell Family Psalters, Liturgical Books Servants Geographic Area: British Isles Century: 14 Date: ca. 1325-1335 Related Work: Luttrell Psalter. Full page available online through the British Library: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/ttpbooks.html (will not open in Safari) Current Location: London, British Library, Add. MS 42130, fol. 208r Original Location: Lincolnshire Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Manuscript illuminations Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Vellum (parchment) Donor: Layman; Geoffrey Luttrell, Lord of Irnham Manor Height/Width/Length(cm): // Inscription: Tribulacionem et dolorem inveni:/nomen domini invocavi [I encountered trouble and sorrow:/and I invoked the name of the Lord.] Related Resources:

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