Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

La vérité à la place des ombres
France, Paris, 1679
MS M.21 fol. 206r

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Underneath a plaque with the inscription, ECCE SPONSUS VENIT, there is an arched frame, below the sky, on which rests two vases of flowers, including tulips and roses, and a covered container framed by bay or laurel leaves at the top. Under a garland of flowers and gold fringed curtains drawn to the sides, a monstrance stands on an altar-table flanked by flowers emerging from gold acanthus ornaments and emblems of the Passion, including the cross with titulus and crown of thorns and lance on the left and ladder and column on the right. There is a quatrain below. Frame consists of bands of burnished and dull gold bands.