Melisende Psalter, c. 1131–43, Eastern Mediterranean, now part of the Collections of the British Library

Melisende Psalter, c. 1131–43, Eastern Mediterranean, now part of the Collections of the British Library

The most important patron of the arts in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was the half-Armenian Queen Melisende. Melisende (1105–c. 1160) and her husband, Fulk V of Anjou, became joint rulers of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1131. However within a year she and her husband were at war – which Melisende and her supporters won. Thereafter she became a great patron of the arts, founding an abbey at Bethany and commissioning this magnificent psalter. From details within the psalter we know its place of origin to be the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and we can also date it fairly accurately between 1131 and 1143.
What is the importance of the Melisende Psalter in the history of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem? Do the iconography and style of the Psalter look western?

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