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

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• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Origin

Place

Bodensee, Germany

Notes

• Initial B with David as a Musician
   
• This initial begins Psalm 1, 'Beatus vir' (Blessed [is] the man). The rest of the psalm continues on the reverse of the leaf. The B of the first psalm was a common place to find decoration, often with an image of King David playing music, as in this example, because David was believed to have composed the psalms. Thus the images of the king at the beginning of the book functioned as an author portrait.
   

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Keywords

• 12th century
• Psalter
• Biblical
• Germany
• German
• Historiated initial
• Fragment

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