PSALM LXXI (72), f. 40v.
The beardless, cross-nimbed Christ-Logos is seated within a globe-mandorla from behind which two angels emerge. He holds a book on His left knee and is trampling an 'oppressor' mentioned in verse 4. The mandorla rests on the top of a hill ('... et erit firmamentum in terra in summis montium,' verse 16). Above the mandorla is a wreath (verse 19), and to the right of it an angel holding the disk of the personified moon ('... so long as the moon endureth,' verse 7). To the left of the wreath is another angel in the same relative position as the first but with hands outstretched. To right and left of the Christ-Logos stands a single figure detached from a group behind him. The one to the left may well be the psalmist with a group of the poor who are mentioned throughout this psalm (verses 2, 4, and 12ff.). Under his hand is 'the rain upon the fleece' visible (verse 6). The one on the right seems to be a poor man, for he is barelegged and has the same attire worn by the poor throughout the picture. Behind him is a group of 'thy people.' To the right below, within a walled city or issuing from the gate are 'they of the city' who 'shall flourish like grass' (verse 16). In front of them three 'enemies' are licking the dust (verse 9). To the left of them a rich man is distributing gold or grain to a group of needy men, women, and children. He has a sack over his shoulder from which the gold or grain is flowing into a bin before him (verses 12 and 15). To the left of the tree in the center of the picture three 'kings of Tarshish, etc.' (verse 10) are bringing offerings. At the bottom of the picture are two rivers flowing from springs in the ground and emptying into seas on which are boats filled with men (verse 8: 'He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth'). A large-sized bust of a man is sketched in at the bottom of the page.
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