Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Origin

Place

Lombardy, Italy

Notes

• Initial B with King David playing
   
• The initial B begins Psalm 1, 'Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum ...' (Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly). The medieval Christians believed that David, the Old Testament king and ancestor of Christ, composed the Psalms. The term 'psalm' derives from the Greek word 'psalmos,' which means 'song sung accompanied by a harp.' This etymology explains the iconography of David playing the harp. This image therefore functions as a type of author portrait.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from a psalter.
   

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Support

Keywords

• 15th century
• Psalter
• Bible
• Biblical
• Historiated initial
• Fragment

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