Hand B
Artists
Hand B worked on the Psalter section of the manuscript, painting the eight historiated initials for Psalms 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 97 and 109 (quires 2-12). His figures are slender and elongated. His treatment of drapery is the least advanced in the manuscript, still relying on linear patterns to indicate folds, with minimal use of colour modelling for shades and highlights.
David praying with Franciscans and Dominicans (Psalm 38)
David prays to God in the upper part of the initial D. Below, two groups of friars – Franciscans on the left and Dominicans on the right – look up. They point to their mouths in reference to the opening verse of Psalm 38, written in gold on the right and continuing overleaf, Dixit custodiam vias meas ut non delinquam in lingua mea (‘I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue’). The initial was painted by Hand B.