PSALM LXXVII (78), f. 45r.
Out of this psalm so full of episodes from the early tribulations of the children of Israel the illustrator has chosen, as it were, only the prologue and the epilogue. To the left under a Hand of God issuing from heaven (verse 42) a patriarch of Israel (Moses?) has risen from a large chair or throne and is standing on a rock before a lectern reading the 'law' (verse 1) to a host of people who are gathered about him in a huge semicircle which takes up all the rest of the picture. They include women, men, young men, and children, who are the 'people,' the 'fathers,' the 'children,' and 'the generations to come' mentioned in verses 1-8. Within the circle thus formed and in front of the lectern of the patriarch stand three attentive representatives of the people. Behind them is David, youthful, crowned, and carrying a spear. He is much larger than the rest of the people represented, with the exception of the patriarch. A number of his sheep are at his feet in front of him (verse 70), and a unicorn ('et aedificavit sicut unicornium sanctificium suum,' verse 69) stands behind him.
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