Majorossy Judit: Egy történelmi gyilkosság margójára. Merániai Gertrúd emlékezete, 1213 - 2013. Tanulmánykötet - A Ferenczy Múzeum kiadványai, A. sorozat: Monográfiák 2. (Szentendre, 2014)
IV. - Mielke, Christopher: Gertrúd királyné és kortársai anyagi kultúrája
Christopher Mielke: The Material Culture of Queen Gertrude and Her Contemporaries Figure 6 The gilded Elisabethpsalter prepared most probably in the monastery of Reinhardsbrunn, c. 1201/1208 (MAN, Inv. Nr. Cod. CXXXVIlfol. 170r-v) Books Ultimately, books in the Middle Ages are a very private sort of artefacts, confined to an enclosed space and limited to a literate circle. While most of what is known about the books of queens and medieval women comes from the fourteenth century and later, the early thirteenth century is the first widespread indication of the private ownership by books of queens with manuscripts that still survive to this day. In some cases, queens could commission books on their own and in this time period it is very clear that they did so. The Ingeborg Psalter, for instance, seems to have been commissioned specifically for Ingeborg of Denmark (1175-1236), queen of France (if not by her, then by one of her circle). The specific imagery and programme of the idea of the legitimacy of the queen is omnipresent and connected not only to Ingeborg’s own status after she was repudiated, but also to the Melisende Psalter of the twelfth century Queen of Jerusalem from which it borrows heavily.61 Queens begin to feature prominently both as commissioners of books, but also their image in chronicles and books that they commission starts to become apparent at this point.62 In other cases, queens could be part of a transmission of books through generations. This is the case of the so called Gertrude Psalter (also called the Egbert Psalter or the Trier Psalter). It was originally commissioned from Reichenau in about 980 for Egbert, the Archbishop of Trier, but in the eleventh century it worked its way to the Kievan court where Gertrude ofPoland (d. 1108), wife of Iziaslav I of Kiev added more illuminations to it. Through her granddaughter at the Abbey of Zweifalten, the psalter seems to have made its way to the Andechs-Meran family, and either Queen Gertrude or her sister (Saint) Hedwig, the duchess of Silesia gave it to (Saint) Elizabeth, the daugther of Gertrude. In turn, Elizabeth gave it to the Cathedral at Cividale which is where - together with another 61 Schowalter 2003:107-110. 62 Nolan 2009:129. 213
