Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1500
MS H.5 fol. 85r

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Upper vignette:
David: sending Uriah to Joab -- Bathsheba and Uriah, wearing hats, with raised hands, stand before David, crowned, wearing ermine-lined mantle. Scene in room decorated with curtain.
Lower vignette:
Uriah the Hittite: Death -- Uriah, wearing armor, fallen on ground and bleeding from wound, is flanked above by two soldiers, wearing armor and raising swords in their right hands. Behind is group of soldiers (only tops of heads visible), many possibly holding spears.
Caption between vignettes reads, DAUID POUR SO(N) PECHIE COUURIR UOULUT Q(UE) VRIE PRUIT SA FEMME QUI REFUSA PARQUOY MOURIR LE FIST A TORT A GRANT BLASME.
Margins decorated with floreate border, including thistles and strawberries, inhabited by bird and by hybrid man, wearing hood and holding walking stick in right hand, with left forefinger raised.
Fly within decorated initial D and head of fantastic animal in decorated initial O.