Un Saltiri de Guillem II per a Monreale? sobre els orígens del Saltiri Anglocatalà de París Authors Montserrat Pagès i Paretas Abstract The questions that this essay trays to answer are two: at the end af 12th century who could have commissioned this Psalter from the scriptorium of the Christ Church of Canterbury, a codex so luxurios and so influenced by the art of Sicily of Sicily? and why was it left unfinished? It might have been commissioned by King William II of Sicily for his cathedral of Monreale. His non-completion would by explained by his death and because of the events that followed his demise: the imprisoning of his widow Joan of England, her release by his brother Richard the Lionheart (who had to recognize Tancred as king of Sicily), the vicissitudes of the Third Crusade and, finally, in the context of the alliance between the English king and Alfons I of Catalonia (II of Aragon), the second marriage of Joan with the count of Toulouse. These events might have led the artists, deprived of sources of financing, to bring the codex to the Catalan-Aragon royal court and to work there in the decoration of the chapter house of Sigena, whose style and iconography are so closely related to the Psalter and to Monreale. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2012-10-25 Issue Vol. 20 (2012) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Miscel·lània Litúrgica Catalana authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d'Estudis Litúrgics (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Miscel·lània Litúrgica Catalana.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d'Estudis Litúrgics for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana d'Estudis Litúrgics declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal Miscel·lània Litúrgica Catalana is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.