The Breslau Psalter
Psalter with miniatures and historiated initials
Texts and Images
Psalms 1, 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 101 and 109 introduced the ten sections into which medieval Psalters were often divided. Each of these ten Psalms is preceded by full-page miniatures and opens with a large historiated initial. The remaining 140 Psalms received small miniatures in the borders, usually illustrating their opening verse or main theme.
Historiated initial D with God the Father and the Son enthroned and blessing (Psalm 109)
Hand F provided an image that illustrates the opening verse of Psalm 109, written in gold beside the initial, Dixit dominus domino meo sede a dextris meis (‘The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand’).