Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Poitiers, ca. 1415
MS M.743 fol. 91r

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David: communicating with God -- God (Christ-Logos), with crossed nimbus, holding tripartite globe, in starry arc of heaven, appears above David, crowned, wtih purse at his waist, kneeling with joined hands raised beside harp. Tree to right. Diaper background.
Margins with ivy-rinceaux and floreate ornament, with bands of foliate decoration.