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">It would be useful to know the liturgical or other devotional context in
which this illumination appears. Has the book in question no formal
description that could be divulged to those who have been asked to assist on
this matter?"
The book in which this image appears is a psalter and the psalm in question
is "Dixit Dominus Domino..." I don't remember the number off-hand. The
matter seems to have been dropped as an insoluble problem. One person
suggested it was a (very common) incident of the illuminator's copying
something he didn't recognize or understand. Since the image is Trinitarian,
I doubt there would be any Marian connections and no one has suggested such
yet. Aqueduct has been popular but how does this fit in with the substance
of the psalm or Trinitarian theology? And an aqueduct that goes nowhere and
has no source, doesn't seem to slope, etc, etc... Also popular has been the
idea of blending of OT and NT themes, with a church at the Father's right
hand and the Tent of Meeting at His left, the strange structure being the
artist's bizarre notion of what it looked like. But these are all hypotheses
for which there is no hard evidence.
MG
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