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Book of Hours
France, ca. 1440
MS M.157 fol. 89r

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David: in Prayer -- David, wearing crown, kneels on one knee with joined hands raised above his head, beside harp on ground. He looks up at head of God, nimbed, in rayed arc of heaven.
Scene in landscape setting with buildings in background.
Margins decorated with floreate border inhabited by moths, birds, and monkey.



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