Munich Serbian Psalter | |
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Munich, Bavarian State Library, Cod. slav. 4 | |
![]() Folios 116v and 117r. The miniature depicts the Transfiguration of Christ, illustrating Psalm 88:13, "Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name."[1] | |
Also known as | Serbian Psalter in Munich, Serbian Munich Psalter |
Type | Psalter |
Date | Late 14th century |
Place of origin | Moravian Serbia |
Language(s) | Church Slavonic of the Serbian recension |
Patron | Lazar Hrebeljanović or Stefan Lazarević |
Material | Paper |
Size | 28 by 19.7 cm; 229 leaves |
Format | Quarto |
Script | Uncial Cyrillic |
Contents | The Psalms, the canticles, and the Akathist to the Theotokos |
Illumination(s) | 148 miniatures |
Additions | Old inscriptions (folio 1r) |
Previously kept | Moravian Serbia and Serbian Despotate (14th–15th centuries); Privina Glava Monastery in Syrmia (17th century); Gotteszell Monastery in the Bavarian Forest (1689–1782); St Emmeram's Monastery, Regensburg (1782 – c. 1800) |
The Munich Serbian Psalter (Serbian: Минхенски српски псалтир, romanized: Minhenski srpski psaltir, German: Serbischer Psalter) is a 14th-century illuminated psalter written in Church Slavonic of the Serbian recension. With its 229 leaves illustrated with 148 miniatures, it is regarded as the most extensively illuminated Serbian manuscript book. It was written after 1370 in Moravian Serbia, either for its ruler Prince Lazar, or more likely, for his successor Stefan Lazarević. The book was rebound in 1630 by Serbian Patriarch Pajsije. It was taken to Bavaria in the late 17th century, and has been kept in the Bavarian State Library in Munich (as MS Cod. slav. 4) since the beginning of the 19th century.