Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalms.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.II, fol. 052r

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David: as Musician -- David, crowned, seated on cushion, with hammer in each hand, strikes bells hung on rod above (cymbala), within initial E at beginning of Psalm 081 (Vulg., 080).
Bust of cleric, tonsured, raising draped hands, inserted into decorated vertical bar in center margin, next to the initial.
Birds perching on decorated horizontal bars, some enclosed in medallions of vine, in upper and lower margins.
Pen flourished initials.