Penitential Psalms and scenes from the Pilgrimage of the Human Life

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The seven Penitential Psalms (6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, 142) were recited as prayers of contrition. The first of them opens with a large miniature of the Trinity. Every page has a marginal miniature from the cycle illustrating the French poem Pilgrimage of the Human Life.