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BOOKS OF HOURS: Introduction
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PSALTERS: Introduction
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Gallican Psalter with Calendar, Canticles, Litany, and Collects Flanders, c. 1470 David Playing the Bells. Inside a paneled, fifteenth-century room, King David plays bells while behind him a harp rests against a stool and two viols hang on either side of a mirror. Through the doorway may be seen a city and God, the figure for whom David plays, in a cloud. The border contains two wild men grappling among the brown, vinelike tendrils. The Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department, Lewis E 182, fol. 81 |
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