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Psalterium Latinum
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PSALM XXVIII (29), f. 16r.
In the heavens at the left, the beardless, cross-nimbed Christ-Logos holding a book is seated within a globe-mandorla flanked by six angels. Below the mandorla and below each of the angel groups are three personifications of winds, representing the 'voice of the Lord,' from whose mouths rays fall upon the waters below and upon the blasted cedars of Lebanon, the flames of fire, the unicorn, calf, and hinds, on the hills to right and left (verses 3-10). The psalmist standing to the right of this scene points to a procession of young men who are bringing sheep and lambs to the sanctuary of the Lord inside a walled enclosure (verses 1 and 2), where a number of people are speaking 'of his glory' (verse 9).