Describe the style and the significance of the two-page opening with Psalm 1 from the Windmill Psalter from the thirteenth century
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
Ambiguity and contradiction marked early medieval British manuscripts.
There are many puns in the text.
The pages are colorful with gold leaf on vellum.
The figures seem to float in space and the hieratic scale was applied.
Images stimulated the user's contemplation of the inner meanings of the text's familiar messages.
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