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David Composing the PsalmsOT Typology

David Composing the Psalms

c. 960 (Macedonian Renaissance, Constantinople workshop; one of the most famous Byzantine illuminated manuscripts)· Bibliothèque nationale de France
Photographic reproduction in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons; faithful reproduction of a 10th-century manuscript). The underlying Paris Psalter (BnF MS gr. 139) is in the public domain.