Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, 1500-1515
MS M.276 fol. 60r

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David and Bathsheba: Bathsheba bathing -- David, crowned, holding scepter in left hand, leaning out of window of palace, looks over hedge into garden and watches Bathsheba, wearing jeweled headdress, holding the hem of her dress above her knees, seated on edge of pool of fountain, with her feet in the water. Water runs from the pool through an arched opening.
Miniature enclosed in architectural frame.
Margins with floreate ornament. In lower margin are two figures, both wearing hoods, emerging from flowers.