Visual Resources, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 15-25 Routledge -orirancsrap The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek MS 76 F 5: A Psalter Fragment? Hans Brandhorst Not all manuscripts neatly fit into established categories or types. One such work, found in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, has attracted considerable attention precisely because of its enigmatic program of illustrations. Iconographic analysis can often be the key to unlocking the intentions of the artists and patrons as well as the function of the work, as in this study which attempts to shed light on this unusual series of illuminations. Keywords: Manuscript Illumination; Christian Iconography; Codicology; Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, MS 76 F 5; www.mnemosyne.org/76f5.html (website); Internet INTRODUCTION One of the best known pictures in the entire collection of illuminated manuscripts of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague is the map of Jerusalem in MS 76 F 5, on f. lr. It has been reproduced many times and the color plate in Walter Cahn's Romanesque Manuscripts' offers us one of the more recent opportunities to study it. No matter how famous this picture is, it is still just one of 45 full-page miniatures which together constitute a fascinating cycle of illuminations. A few decades after these paintings were made various texts were added to 35 pages of the manuscript. These texts are not derived from one single source and as such it is impossible to classify them neatly. This has caused the manuscript to be referred to as a "psalter fragment", a "picture book", or a "collectarium", depending on the author's belief that it may originally have had a text or that it was conceived as an autonomous and independent series of pictures. In this article I hope to look at the evidence once again and to do so with intellectual modesty and prudence--virtues that have always struck me as most characteristic of Paul van Moorsel, the man and the researcher. I shall focus on the closely related codicology and iconography (some of the ISSN 0197-3762 print/03/010015-11 O 2003 Taylor & Francis Ltd DOI: 10.1080/0197376031000078558