Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
France, Bourges, 1455-1460
MS M.67 fol. 126r

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David: as Musician -- David, crowned, wearing mantle with ermine-lined collar, seated on draped canopied throne, raises hammer in each hand, striking bells of cymbala.
Scene in room with arcade view of landscape, within arched gold frame surrounded by foliate border.
In lower margin (bas-de-page), square escutcheon (quarterly, 1 and 4, azure, a cross moline argent, with three fleurs-de-lis (?), and 2 and 3, or, two lions passant gules).