Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1520
MS M.74 fol. 79v

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David: in Prayer -- David, wearing crown over fur-trimmed hat, orant, kneeling beside harp partly enclosed in case on ground, and looking up toward rays from arc of Heaven, in garden before castle background. Margins decorated with borders of strewn flowers, including pea, forget-me-not, and columbine, scattered strawberries, and inhabited by moth. Miniature facing the beginning of the Seven Penitential Psalms.