Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalms.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.II, fol. 045r

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David, crowned, raising right hand, indicating mouth with left hand, within initial D at beginning of Psalm 039 (Vulg., 038).
Birds perching on decorated horizontal bar in upper margin.
In left margin, next to the initial, man, body partially draped, holding book with right hand, as terminus for decorated vertical bar.
In lower margin, two confronted birds perching on decorated foliate vine, nude man extending right hand toward tail of bird at right. Below, in curls of the vine, at left, nude man raising sword with right hand, seated on lion, left hand in open mouth of the lion. At right, nude man indicates him with left hand.
Pen-flourished initial E.