Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
France, Bourges, 1455-1460
MS M.67 fol. 20r

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David and Musicians -- David, crowned, white-haired and bearded, seated on draped throne, plays harp, beside man playing lute, and man wearing belted money purse, standing at entrance way of room.
Scene in arched gold frame surrounded by foliate border.
In lower margin (bas-de-page), square escutcheon (quarterly, 1 and 4, azure, a cross moline argent, with three fleurs-de-lis (?), and 2 and 3, or, two lions passant gules).