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Charity to the Poor (Khludov Psalter, Psalm 41)

A page from the Khludov Psalter illustrating Psalm 41, which blesses the one who considers the poor, promising the Lord's deliverance in the day of trouble (Psalms 41). A tempera illumination on parchment from the Byzantine Khludov Psalter (c. 850).

Charity to the Poor (Khludov Psalter, Psalm 41) by Master of the Khludov Psalter depicting Psalms 41:1
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Depicted passages

Psalms 41:1-3Primary
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About Master of the Khludov Psalter

Byzantine

Anonymous 9th-century Byzantine illuminator (or workshop) responsible for the Khludov Psalter, a marginal psalter containing some of the most polemical iconophile imagery surviving from the Iconoclast Controversy.

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