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The Unicorn (Khludov Psalter, Psalm 22)

A page from the Khludov Psalter illustrating Psalm 22, the prayer for deliverance from the lions' mouths and the horns of the wild oxen (Psalms 22). A tempera illumination on parchment from the Byzantine Khludov Psalter (c. 850).

The Unicorn (Khludov Psalter, Psalm 22) by Master of the Khludov Psalter depicting Psalms 22:21
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Depicted passages

Psalms 22:21Primary
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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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