Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1410-1420
MS M.1073 fol. 106v

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Scene, Liturgical: Obsequies -- Three tonsured priests, wearing vestments, stand around lectern with open book beside bier (coffin), with cross-inscribed pall. Two other priests stand beside the bier, including one holding aspergil in right hand. Two candles on candlesticks beside the bier.
Miniature enclosed in fluted frame with quatrefoils at corners, within an outer frame of decorated bands, with ivy-rinceaux ornament extending into margins.