Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, 1488
MS H.2 fol. 55v

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David: communicating with God -- David, with joined hands, kneels; hat, scepter and harp are on ground next to him. He looks up toward half-figure of God, wearing triple crowned tiara, holding three arrows with right hand and cross surmounted globe with left hand, in cloud-edged arc of Heaven.
Scene in landscape with buildings, stream and bridge, hills and trees in distance.
Margins decorated with border of ornament of white vine scroll with flowers, including viola.