Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, possibly Paris, between 1250 and 1275
MS M.970 fol. 204r

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Beginning of Psalm 069 (Vulg., 068)
David: communicating with God -- David, crowned, nude, emerges from water, and raises hands toward Christ-Logos, cross-nimbed, as half figure, raising right hand in blessing and with draped left hand holding tripartite globe. Figures in decorated initial S.