Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter
France, probably Paris, ca. 1270s
MS M.101 fol. 18v

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Center, ovals enclosing:
1) Christ: Temptation, 1st -- Christ, cross-nimbed, stands, holding cross-staff in left hand and raising right hand toward horned devil, wearing fringed waist-bands, with right hoof raised and pointing with left hoof to falling stones.
Proscenium arch below.
2) Christ: Temptation, 2nd -- Christ, cross-nimbed, sits on roofs of city, raising hands toward horned devil, wearing fringed waist-bands and loin cloth, both on proscenium arch and beneath arches.
3) Christ: Temptation, 3rd -- Christ, cross-nimbed (?), sits on mountain, raising right hand toward winged and horned devil, standing above building and gesturing toward Him. Proscenium arch below and arches above.
4) Christ: Entry into Jerusalem -- Christ, cross-nimbed, raising right hand in blessing, rides on bridled ass treading on garment spread by one of two youths wearing cap, both at city gate of Jerusalem, and the third youth holding palm, on roof.
Tree. Proscenium arch below.
Scenes with gold backgrounds.
Frame, medallions enclosing:
Four figures of prophets, evangelists, or apostles, holding scrolls and gesturing, seated on benches, beneath trefoil arches. Diapered backgrounds.
Full-page background decorated with diapered spandrels, and with center quatrefoil and four lateral half-trefoils enclosing foliage with dragons on gold grounds, all within decorated frame.