Psalter (GKS 1605 4°)

It belongs to the Royal Library, Denmark.

[1] The origins of the book are not known, though it may have been commissioned by Isabella of Austria, wife of Christian II of Denmark.

[2] It was probably illuminated by a follower of Gerard Horenbout and the scribe may have been one Anthonius van Damme, active in Bruges.

[2] It contains 150 psalms as well as other hymns, as well as minor texts and illustrations.

[1] The book was unexpectedly discovered in Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen in 1781, in a chest which had remained unopened for more than a hundred years.