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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 39 (Vulg.), 40 (AV): Expectans expectavi
Saints / Evangelists / John / Gospel / John 1 (In principio erat verbum)
Ecclesiastical objects / Altars and altarpieces / German lands / Catholic

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illustration of Psalm 39:7-8: holocaustum et pro peccato non postulasti, tunc dixi ecce venio in capite libri scriptum est de me (Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me); the caput libri is Jn. 1 (acc.to Jerome)

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: 51v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

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

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