David playing the harp

University Library, MS Add. 6679, f. 184r
Biblia
France, Cîteaux, first quarter of the thirteenth century
Vellum, 405 x 257 mm (235 x 129 mm), 294 ff.
(Binski Zutshi 307)

Contains an historiated letter F that pictures St Jerome writing; nine medallions with scenes of the creation and the fall; and an ornamented initial B, with David playing the harp (pictured here) at folio 184. It is the first listed volume in Jean de Cirey’s 1480 inventory of the manuscripts of the Abbey of Cîteaux.

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