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King David.
From a Manual of Prayers. Selected and Illuminated by Belinda de Trafford, calligraphic manuscript on paper, 116 leaves, written in black ink with capital letters supplied in red illuminated in gold and colour throughout, including 18 leaves with miniatures illustrating biblical scenes, saints etc. within elaborate borders often incorporating smaller miniatures (these leaves and illuminated title-page window-mounted, a few loose), text surrounded by elaborate full borders throughout, containing acanthus and other foliage, flowers, animals, mythical beasts, birds, insects etc., paragraph initial letters in red, blue and green on a gold background, last page inscribed "A testamentary gift from Belinda de Trafford to her brother Augustus Henry de Trafford and his heirs male (1869)", the border incorporating a small inset photographic portrait of Belinda de Trafford (overpainted with the background in gold), contemporary vellum over wooden boards, sides and spine decorated in gilt with outer leafy borders enclosing repeated fleur-de-lys and Lancashire roses, metal centrepieces with enamelled family crest (upper cover) and monogram (lower cover), metal corner bosses and enamelled clasps (one detached) with catch plates in the form of stems with roses, watered silk endpapers, gilt gauffered edges with fleur-de-lys, front hinge split with gathering of blank leaves loose, preserved in original monogrammed roan box (hinge broken), 4to (190 x 160mm.), 1865
An exceptional nineteenth century medieval-style Lancashire manuscript, with finely executed illumination by Belinda de Trafford, the date of the inscription at the end suggesting that she may have spent four years on the work.
Belinda de Trafford (1816-1900) was the daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Katherine de Trafford, members of a prominent family of English Roman Catholics residing at Trafford Park. A devout christian, Belinda never married and was known for her charitable work, leaving £2500 in her will for the building of a church at Irlam outside Manchester.
Sold for £ 7,500 inc. premium. Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts 11 Nov 2015, Bonhams London,
The village of Ruishton lies a couple of miles South East of Taunton in Somerset. The parish church of Saint George lies on the northern edge of the village.
There has been a church on the site since since the 12th century but the current building dates from the 14th century.
This photograph shows a detail from the East window of the South Aisle of the church. The picture shows the figure of King David which is in the middle of the window. The scroll above his head contains words from Psalm xxxiii : 22.
While waiting at the Zion gate, we walked a bit in the close by streets. One of the was leading strait to the King David Tomb.
Attached to the tomb itself, there is a room for studies and prayer. This man was praying by himself. He was walking from side to side, and hardly even noticed us.
when he sat down, never stopping the prayer, he leaned his head on his hand. That was the wat I caught him, among the books, and alone.
Solitude.
finally, a second shot from a blues gig that i went to a few weeks back. intense red i know - i tried this in b&w but it seemed to lose something so red it is. no crop, hardly any processing at all really.
Big Joe Louis was kind enough to allow me to shoot him and his band of Blues Kings - my first authorised gig in this respect! (i have plenty of high noise blurry compact shots from a million other gigs).
first of all i cannot possibly recommend enough to go and see these guys do their thing. everytime i've seen them play they blow the roof of the tiny "Aint Nothin But Blues Bar" in London. i'm not a huge blues critic by any means but as a close friend of mine recently stated, "I did not understand the blues until i experienced live blues at the Aint Nothin but Blues Bar!" (no I have no affiliation with the venue or the band). these guys truly love their music with the deepest passion and its an absolute pleasure to watch them perform. i was fortunate enough to meet each of them after the gig and all three were fantasticly friendly guys.
stay tuned for more photos ... perhaps some that are less red than this one ;)
Big Joe referred to his guitarist as King David, featured in this shot.
check out the band's site for when they are playing next www.bigjoelouis.com/
This stained glass of King David is found in Buffalo New York's Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation,