Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter
Belgium, Liège, ca. 1290-1305
MS M.155 fol. 51r

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Psalm 053 (Vulg., 052):
1) Christ: Temptation, 2nd -- Christ, cross-nimbed, right hand raised, sits on roof of temple and looks down at red devil with four wings. Bird sits on steeple of the temple topped with cross. Sun and moon in sky.
2) Christ: Temptation, 1st -- Christ, cross-nimbed, seated in landscape with five stones, raises right hand and faces red devil with four wings.
Scenes against gold backgrounds within decorated initial D
3) George of Cappadocia, wearing heraldic tunic (argent a cross gules between four crosslets of the second) over chain mail, holds heraldic shield (same as tunic) in right hand and bannered spear in left hand.
4) Prophet stands with scroll in left hand.
Figures in right margin within architectural setting of tower, forming initial I, and supported by hybrid animal with head of man, body of dragon, and foliate tail.