Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Cambrai, 1490-1500
MS M.116 fol. 82v

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David: communicating with God -- David, with joined hands, kneels looking up toward source of rays in sky. Harp and scepter are on ground beside him. Three arrows cross rays. Scene in walled courtyard of castle with landscape, figure and city in distance.
Margins decorated with border of acanthus in cama³aeu.