THE THREE-FACED TRINITY, historiated initial ‘D’ on a fragment from a Psalter, decorated manuscript on vellum [Spain, 13th century] A Romanesque historiated initial from a Spanish Psalter, striking for its unusual iconography and bold palette, an inheritance of the Mozarabic style that flourished in Spain from the 9 th to the 11 th century. 220 x 185mm. 1½ leaves of a bifolium, 22 lines of text, initial ‘D’ opening Psalm 52 (‘Dixit insipiens’), historiated initial approx. 75 x 60mm, used as a wrapper for a 17th-century Castilian census grant (12 leaves, on paper). 19th-century red morocco gilt binding. The contrast between the uncoloured tracery elements of the initial and the surrounding blocks of solid colour are typical of the Mozarabic style that flourished in Moorish Spain from the 9th to the 11th century, a fusion of artistic inheritances from the Islamic East and the Christian West. The iconography of the initial is unusual: the three-faced Trinity was rarely depicted and its representation was prohibited by Urban VIII in the 17th century.
THE THREE-FACED TRINITY, historiated initial ‘D’ on a fragment from a Psalter, decorated manuscript on vellum [Spain, 13th century] A Romanesque historiated initial from a Spanish Psalter, striking for its unusual iconography and bold palette, an inheritance of the Mozarabic style that flourished in Spain from the 9 th to the 11 th century. 220 x 185mm. 1½ leaves of a bifolium, 22 lines of text, initial ‘D’ opening Psalm 52 (‘Dixit insipiens’), historiated initial approx. 75 x 60mm, used as a wrapper for a 17th-century Castilian census grant (12 leaves, on paper). 19th-century red morocco gilt binding. The contrast between the uncoloured tracery elements of the initial and the surrounding blocks of solid colour are typical of the Mozarabic style that flourished in Moorish Spain from the 9th to the 11th century, a fusion of artistic inheritances from the Islamic East and the Christian West. The iconography of the initial is unusual: the three-faced Trinity was rarely depicted and its representation was prohibited by Urban VIII in the 17th century.
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