Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Pontifical
France, perhaps Burgundy, ca. 1485
MS M.347 fol. 205v

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Scene, Liturgical: Blessing of Bell -- Bishop, wearing miter with infulae, cope, surplice and cassock, raising right hand in blessing, resting left hand on open book held by tonsured cleric, stands before bell. At left, behind the Bishop, stand group of six (?) clerics wearing hats, some only hat visible, the two foremost wearing copes, and a seventh cleric, tonsured, holding crozier. At right on other side of the bell, stands man raising right hand, holding hat in left hand.
Scene below lobed arch decorated with crockets and tracery.