Now preserved in the Bodleian library at Oxford.
The celebrated "Utrecht Psalter" is the best known example of a fine manuscript of this date with outline drawings of the revived classical style. Some northern influence is shown in the interlaced ornaments of the large initials. Facsimiles of some pages have been published by W. G. Birch, London, 1876.
This beautiful roll is now in the British Museum, Harl., Roll Y, 6; two of the miniatures are photographically illustrated by Birch and Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations, London, 1879, p. 142.
This Psalter, which is now in the public library at Utrecht, may possibly be one of the very manuscripts which Canute brought from abroad. It was certainly in England for many centuries before it passed into the possession of Sir Robert Cotton, from whose library it must have been stolen, else it would have passed into the library of the British Museum along with the rest of the great Cotton collection of manuscripts.
The Utrecht Psalter has been thought to be the work of an Anglo-Saxon artist, but, most probably, it is the work of a French scribe, though the miniatures are mainly of the debased classical style of Rome, and the character of the writing is even more distinctly classical, differing very little in fact from that of the fourth century Virgil of the Vatican written several centuries earlier.
Good examples of this curious style of miniature are to be seen in a manuscript in the British Museum, Cotton, Tib. C. VI.