Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Sea deities and animals / Nereids / Various activities / Blowing a conch shell or another instrument

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Geography / The earth / Personifications / Oceanus alone

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 51-100 (Vulg.), 52-101 (AV) / Psalm 68 (Vulg.), 69 (AV): Salvum me fac
Old Testament / Jonas (A.V. Jonah) / Jonas cast over board and swallowed by the sea-monster (Jon. 1:15, 2:1)

Further details

Innterpretation of Psalm 68:3: 'Veni in altitudinem maris, et tempestas dimersit me' (I am come into the depth of the sea: and a tempest hath overwhelmed me) with Jonah being cast into the Sea

Artist or creator

St-Germain-des-Prés (Paris)

Date

9th century (first half)

Location

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

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 79r.

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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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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