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Arundel 104 vol. I, f. 350 Illuminated initial, border, and initial
Illuminated initial, border, and initial
Description: Illuminated initial 'T' with a partial foliate border with animal heads at the beginning of Psalm 52. In the lower margin is an added historiated initial 'D' of God in a cloud throwing down arrows at men with swords, shields, and axes cut from an early 13th-century Magna Glossatura. The first words of the Psalm in Latin are written in the right margin, and the running header 'Sauter' ('Psalter') is in damaged, coloured letters in the top margin. 
Origin: England, N.? (Lincoln?) 


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