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The 'Melisende Psalter'

Eastern Mediterranean (Jerusalem) between 1131 and 1143

The Empty Tomb

A detail of the Guards at the Holy Sepulchre in the 'Melisende Psalter', Jerusalem, between 1131 and 1143. British Library Egerton 1139.

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The manuscript is referenced as figure 732 in Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350, Western Europe and the Crusader States by David Nicolle
732A-K Queen Melisende's Psalter, Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1131-43
(British Library. Ms. Egerton 1139, London, England)
A-H The Betrayal, f.7v; I - Guards at the Holy Sepulchre, f.10r; J - Sagittarius f.18v; K - decorated initial, f.23v.
The sleeping guards (I) outside the Holy Sepulchre are almost entirely Byzantine in style, partly realistic and partly archaised.