Leaf from a Psalter: Initial D: David at the Altar on the Threshing Floor of Ornan

Leaf from a Psalter: Initial D: David at the Altar on the Threshing Floor of Ornan

c. 1270–80 · England, Oxford(?)

ink, tempera and gold on vellum

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