Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 41v

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David: sending Uriah to Joab (?) -- David (?), wearing hat, seated before curtain, hands message with pseudo-inscription to man kneeling before him. Behind curtain stands hooded man.
Margins with triangular patterns of foliate ornament. In upper margin is snail.