Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 44r

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Absalom: Death -- Helmeted soldier, seated astride horse, with lance runs through Absalom, wearing armor, with his hair caught in tree branch above his head.
Miniature executed in cama³aeu.
Margins with diagonal bands of foliate ornament.