Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
France, Paris, ca. 1500
MS M.1161. Fol. 079r

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David and Bathsheba: Bathsheba bathing -- David, wearing hat and ermine trimmed garments, with his arms crossed over his breast, looks out from arched window of building (palace?) toward Bathsheba, nude, raising right hand to water issuing from spout on column, standing, partly submerged in pool with animal mask on side, before female attendant wearing headdress, with her arms crossed at her breast; hilly landscape and trees in background.
Miniature within architectural frame of two columns supporting arch.
Borders decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including thistles, on geometric background.
Initial D of Domine decorated with thistles and flora in infilling at beginning of Seven Penitential Psalms.