Iconography

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Flora and Fauna / Animals / Lion / Miscellaneous

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Psalms / Cycles / Western Psalters (not related to the Utrecht Psalter) with images for individual Psalms / Stuttgart Psalter
Old Testament / Psalms / Psalms 1-50 (Vulg.), 1-51 (AV) / Psalm 18 (Vulg.), 19 (AV): Caeli enarrant
Life of Christ / After the Passion / Ascension / Adaptations

Further details

illustration of Psalm 18:6-7, describing the course of the sun, including both literal elements (the sun and the lion, probably standing for the gigas) and the interpretation of these verses as prophecy of Christ's Ascension

Artist or creator

St-Germain-des-Prés (Paris)

Date

9th century (first half)

Location

Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.bibl.fol. 23

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 23r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Ernest T. De Wald, The Stuttgart Psalter, Biblia Folio 23, Wuerttembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, Princeton 1930

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Württembergische Landesbibliothek

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