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f. 1r, Scenes from the Old Testament: Genesis
f. 2r, Scenes from the Old Testament: Genesis - Exodus
f. 3r, Scenes from the life of Christ
Genealogy of Jesse, f. 4r
f. 5v, psalm 1 Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly
f.9r, psalm 4 When I called upon him the God of my justice heard me
f. 19r, psalm 10, In the Lord I put my trust
f. 20r, psalm 11 Save me Lord, for there is now no saint
f. 33v, psalm 19, May the Lord hear you in the day of tribulation
f. 39v, psalm 22, The Lord rules me and I shall want nothing
f. 44v, psalm 26 The Lord is my light and my salvation
f. 49r, psalm 29 I will extol you Lord, for you have held me up
f. 53r, psalm 31 Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven
f. 70r, psalm 39 With expectation have I waited for the Lord and he was attentive to me
f. 76r, psalm 43 We have heard, God, with our ears
f. 90v, psalm 51, Why do you glory in malice, you that are great in iniquity
f. 93r, psalm 53. Save me, God, by your name
f. 100r, psalm 57 If in very deed you speak justice
f. 101v, psalm 58 Deliver me from my enemies, O God
f. 108v, psalm 63 Hear, O God, my prayer when I make supplication
f. 111r, psalm 65 Shout with joy to God all the earth
f. 113r, psalm 66 May God have mercy on us and bless us
f. 114r, psalm 67 Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered
f. 124r, psalm 71 Give to the king your judgement, O God
f. 133r, psalm 76 I cried to the Lord with my voice
f. 135r, psalm 77 The tables set by God in the desert and the Eucharistic gathering
f. 141r, psalm 78 O God, the heathens are come into your inheritance
f. 150v, psalm 84 Lord, you have blessed your land
f. 154v, psalm 87 O Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried in the day and in the night before you
f. 170v, psalm 95 Sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord all the earth
f. 173r, psalm 97 Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done wonderful things
The Great Canterbury Psalter
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f. 53r, psalm 31 Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven
This is one of the penitential psalms in which men confess their sins and are forgiven by God. Between the sun, moon and stars, a bust of God with arms extended presides over an almost symmetrical composition (v. 2, Beatus vir cui non imputavit Dominus peccatum // Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has imputed no sin; v. 4, Quoniam die ac nocte gravata est super me manus tua // For day and night your hand was heavy upon me). Below him three angels hold out a large white cloth over two groups of kneeling and standing men, the pardoned sinners (v. 1, Beati quorum remisse sunt iniquitates et quorum tecta sunt peccata // Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; v. 5, Delictum meum cognitum tibi fecI: et iniusticiam meam non abscondi. Dixi confitebor adversus me iniusticiam meam Domino, et tu remisisti impietatem peccati mei // I have acknowledged my sin to you, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against myself my injustice to the Lord, and you have forgiven the wickedness of my sin). Below them, on either side, two groups of men are armed with shields and spears (v. 7, Tu es refugium meum a tribulatione que circumdedit me; exultatio mea erue me a circumdantibus me // You are my refuge from the trouble which has encompassed me; my joy, deliver me from them that surround me). In the middle sits the psalmist holding a thorny branch with one hand, from which he turns away, and a scroll in the other (v. 4, Conversus sum in erumpna mea dum configitur spina // I am turned in my anguish while the thorn is fastened). Beside him is a man on a rearing horse and two men attempting to control a wild mule with whip and stick (v. 9, Nolite fieri sicut equus et mulus quibus non est intellectus. In chamo et freno maxillas eorum constringe qui non approximant ad te // Do not become like the horse and mule that have no understanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws who come not near you). Across the whole of the bottom of the picture are fish swimming in the sea (v. 6, in diluvio aquarum multarum ad eum non approximabunt // in a flood of mighty waters they shall not come near him).
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