The Breslau Psalter
Physical Description
Description and Contents
Parchment, i modern parchment flyleaf + 147 fols. + i paper flyleaf + i modern parchment flyleaf, 326 x 227 mm (203 x 132 mm), 23 long lines, ruled in brown ink. The text is written in iron-gall ink.
Small miniatures for Psalms 12 and 13
The miniatures are faithful illustrations of the adjacent text. They show David being threatened by an armed man, but receiving the light of salvation from Christ as he touches his eyes (above, Psalm 12), and kneeling in recognition of God unlike the fool opposite him who denies God’s existence (below, Psalm 13).