PSALM XCVI (97), f. 56v, the upper picture.
In the middle of a cloudy heaven the beardless, nimbed Christ-Logos, holding a cross-staff, is seated within a globe-mandorla. A personification of justice holding a pair of scales stands beside him to the left (verse 2). Behind Justice are three angels and two others are to the right of the mandorla (verse 7, 'adorate eum, omnes angeli eius'). The psalmist stands with outstretched hands on a hillock below the Christ-Logos. All the mountains in the picture are smoking (verse 3), and the one to the left with the personification of the sun behind it (verse 11) is melting 'like wax' (verse 5) which is running down its sides like a stream. In the valley below are two groups of the people that 'see his glory' (verse 6). In the right side of the picture angels are hurling firebrands at a group of people who are worshiping two idols raised on a triple-storied pedestal (verse 7). The sea stretches across the bottom of the picture, and in it are islands on which are people adoring the Christ-Logos (verse 1).
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