Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
Belgium, Liège, 1261
MS M.440 fol. 16r

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Psalm 002 (Vulg., 002).
Adam and Eve: Fall of Man -- Adam, with fruit in each hand, raises one to mouth, beside Eve raising fruit in right hand and with left hand touching fruit on tree.
Scene against gold background within initial Q with its tail-descender formed by beast head issuing rectilinear bars decorated with balls in lozenges and trilobe foliage, in lower margin, and spray of gold fillets in right margin.