PSALM XL (41), f. 24r.
The Hand of God issuing from heaven extends towards the psalmist who stands on a hillock in the center of the picture beside a table spread with bread and wine (verse 10, (9)), and points to an overturned bed at the bottom of the hill ('universum stratum eius versasti,' verse 4, (3)). At the right, beside the bed, the bearded psalmist, represented a second time, is seated on a throne and points to the blessed man who 'considereth the poor' and hands him food from his table (verse 2, (1)). At the left of the picture a third rendering of the psalmist shows him standing beside a group of the 'enemy' who 'whisper together' against him (verse 8, (7)). At his feet is an open sarcophagus containing a corpse ('when shall he die and his name perish?' verse 6, (5)). To the right of this at the bottom of the page the body of Christ in a sarcophagus is seen through the open doors of the cross-surmounted Holy Sepulchre. In front of the sepulchre, Christ without a nimbus appears to the two women (Matthew xxviii, 9). This typological representation is the discomfiture of Pilate's and the Jews' sealing of Christ's sepulchre, to which allusion was supposed in verse 9, (8), 'now that he lieth he shall rise up no more' (Matthew xxvii, 65).
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