Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Provence, ca. 1440-1450
MS M.358 fol. 106r

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David: communicating with God -- David, crowned, kneels with joined hands raised, beside harp, and looks up toward Hand of God, nimbed, radiating light and emerging from heaven.
Scene in landscape setting with rocks, river, starry sky, and castle, all within arched decorated frame.
In right margin, hybrid animal, with some canine features, grasps foliate extension in right front paw.
In lower margin (bas-de-page), man grasps foliate extensions in both hands, and female centaur holds switches and object, possibly shield.
Marginal figures set within foliate border decorated with flowers and acanthus leaves.