Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
England, perhaps Oxford, ca. 1265
MS G.42 fol. 125r

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David: dancing before Ark -- Two men, nimbed, carry Ark on two poles between them on their shoulders; David, crowned, hands joined, wearing only long loin cloth, walks before them.
Scene on blue patterned background within initial C.
Beginning of II Chronicles (II Paralipomenon).