On 166v the Commentary states "Grotesque in lower margin". There is no grotesque in the lower margin. Then two sentences later the Commentary describes what is actually in the lower margin - "In the lower margin, a housewife holding a spindle....".

Servants preparing food and running errands are depicted along the margins of the manuscript to emphasize that they played a major role both socially and economically. [25] Images of farming include both men and women to show that during harvest time all available labour was required. Sidelong Glances and Silent Screams: the Emotional World of the Luttrell Psalter', in M. Hofmann & C. Zöhl, eds, Quand La Peinture était dans les Manuscrits: Melanges Francois Avril (Bibl. Nat. de France & Brepols: Paris , 2007), pp. 45-56.

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Female book-ownership and production in Anglo-Saxon England: the Evidence of the Ninth-Century Prayerbooks', in C. Kay & L. Sylvester, eds, Lexis and Texts in Early English: Papers in Honour of Jane Roberts (Brill: Amsterdam, 2001) The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels (ANGB 51), ed. by Julia Fernández Cuesta and Sara M. Pons-Sanz (de Gruyter, 2016) Settimana di studio della Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, ‘L’Irlanda e gli Irlandesi nell’Alto Medioevo’, CISAM, Spoleto, Italy, 2009. The Scribe as Evangelist: Illuminated images of biblical transmission, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the York Gospels', for a festschrift for Jennifer O'Reilly, ed. E. Mullin (2009). Manuscript Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, mounted, being assisted by his wife and daughter-in-law. Folio 202v.

Four members of the family are important in the story of the Psalter in the fourteenth century – Sir Geoffrey and his wife Agnes, their eldest surviving son, Andrew and his first wife, Beatrice. Geoffrey was born in 1276 in Irnham, Lincolnshire, the village at the centre of his life where he was later married and buried. In terms of status the Luttrells have been described as ‘minor baronage’ though only Robert, Lord Luttrell (d.1297) was summoned individually to Parliament and was thus the only member of the family to rank as a peer. Sir Geoffrey Luttrell seems more suited to being described as a member of the gentry. The Eastwardness of Things: Relationships between the Christian Cultures of the Middle East and the Insular World ' Bearded Sages and Beautiful Boys: Insular and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes to the Iconography of the Beard’ The Luttrell Psalter is also famous for its surreal images. To be able to interpret these images you need to be aware of the symbolism of visual political satire in the Middle Ages. Mercian Manuscripts: the implications of the Staffordshire Hoard, other recent discoveries, and the ‘new materiality

Cyber incident

The Luttrell Psalter has been considered the one manuscript that accurately portrays life in medieval rural England. However, the Psalter was commissioned by and created for Sir Geoffrey. Therefore it is more likely that the images of farmers at work are idealized portrayals meant to please the lord of the manor, rather than demonstrate everyday life.