Benedictine monk Eadwine, an illuminator, creates the so-called Eadwine Psalter at Canterbury.

The Utrecht Psalter, a ninth century illuminated psalter that is a key masterpiece of Carolingian art, is famous for its one hundred and sixty-six lively pen illustrations, with one accompanying each psalm and the other texts in the manuscript (Chazelle, 1055).

The manuscript had reached Canterbury Cathedral by about 1000, at which time a copy began to be made of it: the Harley Psalter.

The Psalter will be copied in full three times in the Middle Ages, the second copy being the Eadwine Psalter (Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS R.17.1) of 1155–60, with additions 1160–70, and the texts extended to five versions of each psalm.