Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, Paris, ca. 1415
MS M.395 fol. 26v

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David: communicating with God -- David, crowned, wearing loin cloth or braies, kneels in water with joined hands raised to Christ-Logos, cross-nimbed, with right hand raised in blessing and holding cross-surmounted globe in left hand, in arc of heaven amid seraphim. Scene in landscape with trees and distant city or castle.

Margins with ivy-rinceaux ornament.