Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter
England, perhaps London, ca. 1225
MS G.25 fol. 3r

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Christ and Four Beasts -- Christ, cross-nimbed, raises His right hand in blessing and holds in His left hand cross-staff and open book, inscribed ALPHA ET W' P(RIMUS) & NOUISSIM(US) INITIU(M) & FINIS based on Revelation 21:6 and 22:13.
He sits on arc, with His feet on arc, in decorated mandorla surrounded by four winged, nimbed Beasts.
Decorated frame.