Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Loire, ca. 1475
MS G.1.I fol. 101r

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David: communicating with God -- David, with joined hands extended, kneels next to rocky outcrop, hat with crown on ground before him. Angel, holding sword with right hand, hovers before him. Above, half-figure of God, wearing triple-crowned (?) papal tiara, raising right hand and holding globe with left hand appears in arc of Heaven.
Scene in landscape with trees, and buildings in distance.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament including thistle, columbine and strawberry, and inhabited by hybrid man wearing hat. In right margin, initials I and B bound together with knotted cord. In lower margin defaced escutcheon.