Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter
France, between 1125 and 1175
MS M.505 fol. 10v

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Initial C decorated with foliate ornament and inhabited by fantastic animal with body of serpent, forming initial, and head of animal, mouth open. Initial partially destroyed.
Beginning of Psalm 98 (Vulg., 97).
Initial D decorated with foliate ornament and inhabited by two nude men as atlantes, each grasping with one arm vine of the initial resting on their backs.
Beginning of Psalm 102 (Vulg., 101).