summary
Miniature for book of hours
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
140
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
95
note (deco)
King David in profile kneeling in prayer on a crenellated terrace outside a gothic tower, a view of a street scene beyond including a woman carrying two jugs (probably in allusion to Bathsheba’s bathing, II Samuel 11: 2) and a man riding away on a white horse (probably Uriah the Hittite returning to Joab carrying the letter which ensures that Uriah will be killed in battle, ibid, 14–15), God appearing in the sky with the arrows of vengeance; within a full border subdivided into compartments by rustic branches including vignettes in the apertures of a couple in a boat, a merman in armour fighting a mermaid, and two ducks, other compartments including a daisy and a rose on coloured grounds; rather rubbed; recto blank.
origPlace : proposed origin
Bruges
note (history)
[on Ricketts D:5] There is a second leaf from the same manuscript Book of Hours in the Lilly Library, Ricketts D: 6.
provenance
C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
note (temp)
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/RickettsD5_40
repository
Indiana University, Lilly Library
