Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
France, Bourges, 1455-1460
MS M.67 fol. 1r

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Miniature depicting relics of the Sainte-Chapelle in their reliquaries arranged within the Grande châsse with identifying inscriptions at top and bottom. The reliquaries are labeled with inscriptions, identifying them as containing the holy blood, a chain from the flagellation, the Virgin's milk, the holy sponge, the crown of thorns, wood from the true cross, Moses's rod, and the reliquary head of John Baptist.
In lower margin (bas-de-page), coat of arms (quarterly, 1 and 4, azure, a cross moline argent, with three fleurs-de-lis (?), and 2 and 3, or, two lions passant gules).