Initial M with David in Prayer, 1501–2
From a psalter created for the Olivetan monastery of Santa Maria in Organo, Verona
Girolamo dai Libri (Italian, Veronese, 1474/75–1555)
Italian (Verona)
Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment

9 x 6 1/4 in. (22.7 x 15.9 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1912 (12.56.3)

The illumination heralds the beginning of Psalm 50: "Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy."

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"Girolamo Dai Libri: Initial M with David in Prayer (12.56.3)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/book/ho_12.56.3.htm (March 2009)

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Boehm, Barbara Drake. "Choirs of Angels: Painting in Italian Choral Manuscripts, 1300–1500." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 66, no. 3 (Winter, 2009).