Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Rennes, ca. 1430
MS M.173 fol. 99r

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Scene, Liturgical: Obsequies -- Three clerics, tonsured, two wearing copes stand next to lectern on which is open book. One of the clerics, holds aspergil (?) in left hand, and gestures with right hand toward bier draped with cross-inscribed pall. At end of the bier are three mourners wearing hoods.
Scene in church (?) with decorated wall, wood ceiling, tile floor; mourners in apse with vault and windows.
Margins decorated with border of foliate ornament and rinceaux.