King David in the waters calling on God to save him, in an initial on a leaf from a large and fine Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Northern France (Paris), c. 1280-90] Large leaf, with historiated initial 'S' (opening "Saluum me fac ...", Psalm 12), in blue heightened with white penwork, enclosing a half-length portrait of David in its lower compartment, naked apart from his golden crown, as God appears holding a globe in the upper compartment, these on blue grounds with tessellated patterns picked out in black and red, all on red-brown grounds with delicate white foliage overlaid, enclosed within thin gold frame and with text border in blue and red-brown with gold baubles and angular gold grounds, descending the entire length of the page and splitting in lower border into two foliate extensions, two text borders on left-hand sides of columns on reverse formed of red and blue foliate shapes with scrolling penwork, initials in red and blue with contrasting penwork, red rubrics, double column of 41 lines, early modern '68' in margin next to initial, modern pencil folio no. in corner (erased and faint, but probably '229'), some flaking from ink in places, slight stain to head, else excellent condition, 300 by 210mm. From the same parent manuscript as the previous two lots.
King David in the waters calling on God to save him, in an initial on a leaf from a large and fine Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Northern France (Paris), c. 1280-90] Large leaf, with historiated initial 'S' (opening "Saluum me fac ...", Psalm 12), in blue heightened with white penwork, enclosing a half-length portrait of David in its lower compartment, naked apart from his golden crown, as God appears holding a globe in the upper compartment, these on blue grounds with tessellated patterns picked out in black and red, all on red-brown grounds with delicate white foliage overlaid, enclosed within thin gold frame and with text border in blue and red-brown with gold baubles and angular gold grounds, descending the entire length of the page and splitting in lower border into two foliate extensions, two text borders on left-hand sides of columns on reverse formed of red and blue foliate shapes with scrolling penwork, initials in red and blue with contrasting penwork, red rubrics, double column of 41 lines, early modern '68' in margin next to initial, modern pencil folio no. in corner (erased and faint, but probably '229'), some flaking from ink in places, slight stain to head, else excellent condition, 300 by 210mm. From the same parent manuscript as the previous two lots.
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