Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

La vérité à la place des ombres
France, Paris, 1679
MS M.21 fol. 202r

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Below a plaque with the motto, ET IPSE TAMQUAM SPONSUS, the Ark of the Covenant rests on an altar within a pilastered apse. At the entrance four panels show winged, allegorical figures in bas-relief. Before the apse a pair of columns, on bases with scenes of small figures, support fringed curtains drawn to the sides above a tessellated floor. There is a quatrain below. Frame consists of bands of burnished and dull gold bands.