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PSALM XXXII (33), f. 18v.
The beardless, nimbed Crist-Logos carrying a cross-staff and attended by three angels is standing within a mandorla before the drawn curtains of a tabernacle, 'the place of his habitation,' and 'looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth' (verses 13 and 14). The psalmist mounted on a hillock below and supporting a harp on his knee is gazing up at Christ-Logos and points to a large gathering of people at the left who are playing instruments and are singing the praises of God as indicated in verses 1, 2, and 3. At the psalmist's feet a personification of the sea seated on the back of a sea-monster pours water from an urn, 'congregans sicut in utre aquas maris' (verse 7). At the right five angels with spears and arrows are attacking a group of soldiers, 'the counsel of the heathen,' who are cowering beneath shields (verse 10). Below, several riders are falling or have fallen from their horses, for 'an horse is a vain thing for safety' (verse 17). To the right of them a giant, attached to the rock by his ankles, lies transfixed ( 'gigas non salvabitur in multitudine virtutis suae ,' verse 16). On the opposite side of the picture an angel is distributing food from a table to a group of men and to a group of women and children, 'to keep them alive in famine' (verse 19).