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 monks and nuns (Psalm 26)
David prays to God in the upper part of the initial D. Below, two groups of monks and nuns kneel in prayer to God. The gold oil lamps hanging between them illustrate in a literal sense the opening verse of Psalm 26, written in gold on the right, Dominus illuminatio mea (‘God is my light’). The initial was painted by Hand B.