Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Egmont breviary
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440
MS M.87 fol. 27r

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Psalm 046 (Vulg., 045). David: communicating with God -- David, crowned, wearing cloak fastened with morse, seated on throne, looking up toward face of God in rayed arc of heaven. Interior scene with tiled floor. Decorated initial of Psalm 46. Margins decorated on three sides with scrolling foliate decoration inhabited by half figures of two men, wearing hats, gesturing, and bust of man (right); hybrid dragon-like animal amid foliage (lower).