Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Cuerden psalter
England, Oxford, ca. 1270
MS M.756 fol. 9v

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Zone 1:
1) John Baptist, nimbed, wearing garment of skins, holds disk enclosing Lamb of God carrying bannered cross-staff;
at right, Leonard of Limoges, nimbed, tonsured, in abbot’s habit, holds crozier in left hand and manacles in right hand.
Figures stand beneath two trefoil arches.
2) Two nimbed male saints wear archbishops’ miters and vestments with cross-inscribed pallia; each raises right hand in blessing and holds cross-staff in left hand.
Figures stand beneath two arches.
Zone 2:
3) Two nimbed male saints wear bishops’ miters and vestments with pallia; each raises right hand in blessing and holds crozier in left hand.
Figures stand beneath trefoil arch.
4) Catherine of Alexandria, nimbed, crowned, stands, holding spiked wheel;
at right, Margaret of Antioch: Scene, emerging from Dragon -- Hand of God emerges from clouds, blessing Margaret of Antioch, nimbed, with joined hands raised, emerging from back of dragon with her garment in its open jaws; two trees.
Figures beneath trefoil arch.
Zone 3:
5) Veiled, nimbed female saint holds book in draped left hand and raises right hand;
at right, Mary Magdalen, nimbed, veiled, holds ointment jar in right hand and raises left hand.
Figures stand beneath two trefoil arches.
6) Two nuns, wearing black veils over white habits, hold books; one with right hand raised address the other with left hand raised.
Figures stand beneath two arches.
All six compartments against pink backgrounds within decorated frame.