PSALM XCI (92), f. 54r.
At each end of the heavens the figure of a woman is represented; one of them holds a disk with the personified bust of the sun, the other a disk with the bust of the moon. These figures are to be identified with 'mercy (lovingkindness)' and 'truth (faithfulness),' so frequently personified in this psalter. They illustrate verse 3, (2) which reads: 'ad annunciandum mane misericordiam tuam et veritatem tuam per noctem.' In the space between these two figures is the beardless, cross-nimbed Christ-Logos, attended by six angels, holding a book and seated upon a globe (verse 9, (8)). Below is a walled enclosure which stretches across the entire picture. Within it to the left is a cross-surmounted building representing the 'courts of our God' with curtains drawn aside (verse 14, (13)). On the steps in front of it the psalmist or the 'righteous' is seated. He is addressing four men who are approaching from the right, the two foremost carrying musical instruments, the harp and the lute (verse 4, (3)). A unicorn appears to the right of the tabernacle (verse 11, (10)). In the extreme upper right beside the figure of truth with the disk of the moon are a palmtree and a cedar to which the just man is compared in verse 13-14, (12-13). Outside the walls in the lower right of the picture an armed group of men is overpowering the 'enemy' and 'wicked' (verses 8-10, (7-9)).
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