Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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• Council on Library and Information Resources

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France (northern)

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• This miniature begins the Penitential Psalms. The scene of David watching Bathsheba at bath was a popular theme to accompany these seven psalms that were recited as an act of penance. After seeing her, David conspires to have Bathsheba's husband Uriah sent to the frontlines of battle, effectively murdering him so that the king could have Bathsheba for himself. The story of David's sin, told in II Samuel, led to his penance and eventual redemption, providing a model for the medieval penitent.
   

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Keywords

• 16th century
• France
• French
• Book of Hours
• Devotion
• Illustration
• Fragment

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