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DAVID PRAYING, large arch-topped miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[northern France, ?Paris, c.1480]164 x 114mm. The penitent King David shown kneeling beneath a canopy, his harp before him and looking up to God shown through a window above; with a three-line blue initial on a burnished gold ground with ivy-leaf infill and full-page border of blue and gold acanthus and sprays of naturalistic flowers on divided grounds of liquid gold, inhabited with a peacock and drollery. 15 lines of text on verso, with one-line initials of alternate blue and burnished gold with similar line-endings (lightly scored lines across David's hands, small pigment loss at his sleeve, slight fading to cloth at left, marginal remnants of previous mount on verso).
AN ATTRACTIVE LEAF with the opening of the seven penitential psalms.
[northern France, ?Paris, c.1480]164 x 114mm. The penitent King David shown kneeling beneath a canopy, his harp before him and looking up to God shown through a window above; with a three-line blue initial on a burnished gold ground with ivy-leaf infill and full-page border of blue and gold acanthus and sprays of naturalistic flowers on divided grounds of liquid gold, inhabited with a peacock and drollery. 15 lines of text on verso, with one-line initials of alternate blue and burnished gold with similar line-endings (lightly scored lines across David's hands, small pigment loss at his sleeve, slight fading to cloth at left, marginal remnants of previous mount on verso).
AN ATTRACTIVE LEAF with the opening of the seven penitential psalms.
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