Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 43v

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David: communicating with God -- David, crowned, with left hand gestures toward God, wearing papal tiara, with right hand raised and holding cross-surmounted globe in left hand. Around God stand four angels (?), all within arc of heaven emanating rays.
Miniature executed in cama³aeu.
Margins with foliate ornament. In left margin is fox with bundle tied to staff held over its right shoulder.