David and Jonathan
Item
- Title
- David and Jonathan
- Type
- Illuminated manuscript leaf
- Creator
- various
- Date
- c 1295
- Description
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This image is a leaf from La Somme le roi, a moral treatise written by Dominican Friar Laurent d'Orléans, and illustrated by many several secular illuminators.
On the left:
A crowned female figure stands on a dragon and holds a medallion as a dove. The inscription above, "Amistie," her labels her as "friendship." Beneath Friendship, David and Jonathan embrace over an inscription "David et Jonathas."
On the right: Elias cringes away from a lamp below below an inscription "hely" (hatred). Below this, Saul is threatening to kill David, above an inscription "saul et david." - Source
- Source
- Format
- JPEG
- Language
- Old French
- Identifier
- MS 54180 f. 107
- Rights Holder
- British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Item sets
- Queer Art from the Middle Ages
