Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Hungary, Budapest, 1481
MS G.7 fol. 21v

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David: communicating with God -- David, crowned, wearing loin cloth, kneels in stream of water with joined hands raised to God, nimbed, holding cross-surmounted globe in left hand and with right hand raised in blessing, as bust in sky. Scene in decorated initial S.
Floreate margins, with standing kingfisher (?) in vignette in lower margin.