MINIATURIST, Flemish
(active around 1475 in Bruges)

The Black Hours

c. 1475
Manuscript (M. 493), 170 x 120 mm (folio size)
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York

The miniature on folio 76v precedes the text of the seven Penitential Psalms. It depicts the Old Testament king, prophet and psalmist David, clad in the garb of a late medieval ruler.