Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Tournai, ca. 1470
MS M.316 fol. 16r

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Man, possibly David, wearing hat and ermine-lined mantle decorated with ornament of stars, kneels with joined hands raised toward dove of Holy Ghost, cross-nimbed, wings outstretched, within arc of heaven.
Scene in landscape setting within decorated initial D.
Floreate border frames text.