Howard Psalter and Hours

The Howard Psalter and Hours (British Library Arundel MS 83 I) is a 14th-century illuminated prayerbook.

It includes a liturgical Psalter with canticles and litany, the Office of the Dead, a calendar of East Anglian origin and an incomplete Hours of the Passion.

There are also some smaller decorated initials which include human heads, which are also painted in colors and gold.

Bound with the Howard Psalter is part of what was once the De Lisle Psalter (Arundel MS 83 II),[a] consisting of a calendar and the Speculum theologiae, a collection of diagrams attributed to John of Metz, a 13th-century Franciscan friar working in Paris.

The illuminations have been attributed to the Madonna Master, named after the facing miniatures of the Virgin and the Crucifixion (ff.