What is the text of the Eadwine Psalter?

For some time now, we have discussed the different attributes of TEXT. Through both last semester’s lectures and the few that I have attended this semester, it’s evident that the nature of text is both allusive and ubiquitous. This is probably the only evident thing about what text actually is as I’ve come to realize throughout this study. In the example of the Eadwine psalter, several instances of text are now apparent, including: the words on the page, the different and intricate images, the texture of the material that the psalter was written upon, the varying stylized writings, the various illuminated variations of the letter B, the story that the images relay to the reader, the ink that the scribe used, the time frame when the manuscript was written, and the audience that the psalter was intended for (for Ecclesiastical purposes). The text of the psalter also consists of varying natures that people, as current viewers, bring into context, such as where the psalter is viewed. For me, the text also contains the different tabs that I have open on my laptop right now, the image of the psalter included amongst them, as well as the fact that I am now viewing the text through my laptop on a Monday night in 2012, whereas the original viewers of the text where holding it in their hands, up close and personal, in the 12^th century. The text of this image, and all other texts, consists of so much more than what we initially perceive. The way we read and view text builds on much more than just words on a page. It is the unveiling of minute details which add to the hierarchal TEXT.