The sections are divided into a preface by Peter Lombard, the Psalms, and the Twelve Canticles including the Litany of Saints and the Nine Collects.

[2] This Psalter is unique because the chief illuminator/ scribe's name and area of origin for the manuscript is known, unlike most other English Gothic illuminations, because of an Inscription written on the first folio.

He was instated as Prior in November 1303, and was removed from office on 6 March 1314 for financial misconduct, due in part to the costs associated with producing a script of this level,[1] leaving the manuscript unfinished in different stages.

John de Tickhill first came into power at the Worksop Priory during the year 1303, which is when he would have been able to start production on this manuscript.

There are around twenty-eight known completed shields of actual feudal families woven into the marginal decorations throughout the Psalter.

[2] John Tickhill was removed from office during the year 1314 after a visit from the archdeaconry of Nottingham, he was cited with "Incontinence and Dilapidation",[6] for an improper use of funds and allowing the monastery to fall into a state of disrepair.

Less than a month later, Robert de Carlton was elected into the Priory seat by the other Canons at Worksop,[7] and work on the Psalter was halted as funds were redirected.

The folio directly to the right of the Tree of Jesse contains the Beatus vir,[5] a stylized initial containing the first few words to The Psalms, as well as continued scenes from the life of David.

[5] There is more short commentary before each of the actual psalm readings that uses the translation known as Psalterium Gallicanum written by St. Jerome of Bethlehem in 392.

[5] After the Tree of Jesse, the psalms are then divided into eight parts, with seven full page initial illumination between each section.

[5] This Eight-part division of the psalms is connected to the Roman and Gallican customs during the time of St Augustine of Canterbury, as there are designated reading for each of the seven days of the week, with an additional Sunday Vesper.

[2] Invokes the names of St. Augustine and St. Cuthbert, the Patron Saint of Worksop, alongside Mary the Virgin.