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Decorated Incipit Page   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Unknown – illuminator
Title
Decorated Incipit Page
title QS:P1476,en:"Decorated Incipit Page"
label QS:Len,"Decorated Incipit Page"
Object type Folio
Description
Gold capital letters laid out in an exquisitely balanced geometric grid continue the text of Psalm 1, which began with the large initial B on the page facing this one. The letters, set against colored grounds of mauve and blue, read: [B]eatus vir qui no[n] abiit in co[n]si[lio impiorum] (Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly).
Date about 1240 - 1250
Medium "Tempera colors, gold leaf, and silver leaf on parchment"
Dimensions height: 227 mm (8.93 in); width: 157 mm (6.18 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,227U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,157U174789
institution QS:P195,Q29247
Accession number
lido.getty.edu-gm-obj110066
Notes More info at museum site
Source/Photographer 5wHzgTpU2jU6IQ at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level

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