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[KING DAVID]

Leaf from a miniature Book of Hours, this once opening the Seven Penitential Psalms and with King David in a historiated initial, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[North-east Italy (perhaps Venice)
c. 1470-80]
€600 - €800

Single leaf, 92 by 63mm, with single column of 13 lines, red rubric, one-line initials in red or blue, one historiated initial in red, green and fawn acanthus leaves, enclosing half-length portrait of David in prayer, the whole initial on burnished gold grounds, full decorated border of dense foliage terminating in coloured flowerheads and bristling gold bezants, text on recto and small area of adjacent border slightly rubbed, spots and stains, else presentable condition

From an incomplete Book of Hours sold in Sotheby's, 5 July 2005, lot 100, and subsequently dispersed