Detached ivory from the cover of Add MS 37768 (the 'Lothar Psalter')
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A sculpted ivory figure of King David, formerly attached to the cover of Add MS 37768 (the Lothar Psalter). The figure is shown seated on a throne, crowned and bearded, and holding a bowed lyre.
Psalter in the Gallican version with canticles (the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter')
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Contents: f. 1r: A eulogy of the Psalter, incipit: 'In psalmo confiteris infirmitatem tuam' in a 9th-century hand. f. 1v: A prayer, now partially obscured, in a 10th-century hand, incipit: 'D[omi]ne d[eus] om[nipoten]s' apparently composed during a vacancy in the abbacy of St. Hubert or the d...