Associates of the Painter of Additional 15677
Artists
The Painter of Additional 15677 collaborated with several associates. Two of them painted an historiated initial each. They also provided the landscape or architectural borders around some of the main artist’s miniatures and historiated initials. The more talented associate painted the initial and border on fol. 74r as well as four other landscape borders (fols. 50r, 82r, 85r, 107r). The other associate executed the historiated initial and border on fol. 25r, and further architectural borders. One of them or a third associate painted the border with peacock feathers on fol. 14r. Numerous assistants provided the strewn-flower borders, ornamental initials and line fillers throughout the volume.
Penitent David (Penitential Psalms)
The Painter of Additional 15677 provided the large miniature of David in penitence, but one of his associates completed the historiated border which shows Bathsheba’s husband Uriah marching into battle on David’s orders. The seven Penitential Psalms were recited to avoid the seven deadly sins: pride, avarice, lust, envy, gluttony, anger and sloth. Lust is the sin implied here – the sin for which David repents.