PSALM XC (91 ), f. 53v.
In the upper left corner of the picture the psalmist is standing under a portico of a building, 'the secret place of the Most High' (verse 1), and is gazing with astonishment towards the center of the picture where the beardless, cross-nimbed Christ-Logos, holding a book and a spear, is standing within a mandorla supported by four angels (verse 12). The Christ-Logos is a remarkably drawn figure, treading a lion and an adder under His feet and striking the mouth of the adder with His spear (verse 13). A wingless angel above the Christ-Logos is holding a shield and spear (verse 4), and is setting a wreath-crown on His head (verse 15). To the left and in the heavens are personifications of the sun and moon surrounded by stars. To the left of the moon there is a Medusa-like head of 'pestilence' attended by tiny demon forms (verse 6). In the middle register on either side of the picture a figure is shooting an arrow at the Christ-Logos from within a cave (verse 5: 'the arrow that flieth by day.') Below the Christ-Logos two figures with shield and spear are driving groups of people into fiery pits to right and left. Within the pit to the right is a crouching personification of Hades and in that to the left is a huge snaky-locked head of Death (verse 7). In the central foreground a man on horseback armed with bow and arrow and accompanied by two hounds is pursuing a stag (verse 3, 'liberavit me de laqueovenantium').
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