Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1500
MS H.5 fol. 80r

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Upper vignette:
Nabal: Shearing sheep (I Samuel 25:02) -- Nabal, wearing hat, stands and extends right forefinger toward woman, wearing headdress, seated and shearing sheep in her lap. Behind her is second woman, wearing headdress, also shearing sheep in her lap, seated amid flock. Scene in landscape setting.
Lower vignette:
Nabal: greeted by David's Servants (I Samuel 25:10-11) -- Of three messangers, one holds hat in left hand and two extend right hands toward Nabal, wearing hat, raising right hand. Scene in landscape setting.
Caption between vignettes reads, NABAL RICHE UIF EN TOUSANT SES BREUIS VEIT VERS LUY VENIR MESSAGIERS QUIL FIST REFFUSANT DONC GRANT MAL LUY DEUT ADUENIR.
Viola in decorated initial H.
Margins decorated with floreate border, including cornflowers and thistles, inhabited by fly and by hybrid animal, wearing hood, with monkey on his back, wearing collar, holding club.