PSALM LXVII (68), f. 37v.
The psalmist, bearded, stands in the middle of the picture and raises one hand to heaven while pointing with the other to various things that are happening about him. These episodes taken from the text of the psalm are rather unrelated, but are placed around the psalmist with an attempt at balanced composition. They are as follows: at the top of the picture the beardless Christ-Logos without nimbus is riding out of the clouds in a quadriga suggested by the 'chariot' of verse 18, (17), flanked by four angels, three of them bearing wands. The Christ-Logos brandishes a torch and is 'scattering' His enemies before Him who 'flee' from His presence (verses 2-3, (1- 2)). In the upper right corner a group of the just are feasting about a table (verse 4, (3): 'et justi epulentur'). Below the table to the left is a group of 'widows' and 'fatherless' (verse 6, (5)). Below them five women are playing, singing, and dancing (verse 5, (4)). To their right an angel is pulling on a rope or chain which passes into sarcophagi from which three people are rising ('he bringeth out those which are bound with chains,' verse 7,(6)). Returning to the upper left half of the picture we note the following: under a tree to the left of the Christ-Logos group are those 'qui habitant in sepulcris' (verse 7, (6)). Beside them to the left is the 'mons pinguis' of verse 16, (15). The illustrators in this psalter seem to associate sheep and oxen with the term 'pinguis' when mentioned in connection with field, pastures or mountains. There is however a more definite motivation in verse 11, (10) which reads: 'animalia tua habitabunt in ea.' Below the hill is a walled city (Jerusalem, verse 30, (29)) before the gate of which an angel treads the prostrate enemy and strikes the 'hairy scalp' of one of them (verse 22, (21)). Two dogs are licking their blood (verse 24, (23)). Beside the city walls 'Israel' is seated on a throne and has the 'little Benjamin' alongside him (verse 28, (27)). A 'fountain' (verse 27, (26)) issues from the ground before them and runs into a sea placed at the bottom of the picture (verse 23, (22)). Three kings, the 'princes of Judah, Zebulun and Naphtali' are bringing gifts to the city (verse 28, (27) and 30, (29)) and are 'joined with singers' (verse 26, (25)). The 'bulls' and 'calves' of the people are drinking from the waters of the spring (verse 31, (30)).
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