Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

La vérité à la place des ombres
France, Paris, 1679
MS M.21 fol. 194r

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Below a plaque with the inscription, NUMQUID NON IPSE EST PATER TUUS, the Ark of the Covenant stands on an altar-table in a recess before a reredos adorned with bas-reliefs of allegorical figures alternating with composite pilasters. Columns and fringed curtains drawn to the sides frame the entrance. There is a quatrain below. Frame consists of bands of burnished and dull gold.