Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Poésies
Northeastern France, 1425-1430
MS M.396. Fol. 118r

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Miniature, center margin:
1) Guillaume de Machaut, Dit de la Harpe: Scene, David as Musician -- Bust of God, cross-nimbed, appearing in cloudy arc of heaven at upper left. Below, David, crowned, sitting in canopied throne and playing harp on lap.2) Guillaume de Machaut, Dit de la Harpe: Scene, Lady judged by Men -- Lady, wearing butterfly headdress, wrists crossed at waist, before three men, of two wearing draped headgear the foremost gesturing toward her.