In this image David is shown crowned, wearing a bright red cloak lined with royal ermine. He is seated cross-legged in a golden chair playing the harp. The biblical miniatures in this Hebrew manuscript were apparently created by Christian illuminators belonging to three important 13th-century Parisian workshops. Perhaps they were inspired by imagery in the Bibles moralisées of France of the period: 'picture-book bibles', which contained sumptuously illustrated versions of the scriptures' stories with the text serving as little more than captioning.