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Large, decorative initial showing David with harp and 3 other musicians with fiddle, pipes and large viol, man and dragon outside.

Ornamental initial D at the opening of Psalm 101, from f.86r of MS K.30, Psalter (North Midlands, c.1190-1200). King David plays the harp and three other musicians play the fiddle, pipes and viol. In the ascender a man slays a dragon.

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