(Q21645)

The initial B and the text from Psalm 2 on the reverse of this cutting indicate that this initial comes from a psalter. David kneeling with a hat beside him on the ground as he prays to God suggests the penitent David, a subject that usually illustrates the beginning of the Penitential Psalms. Here, however, David is also wearing a crown and playing his harp, iconography that is more...