Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Italy, Ferrara, ca. 1480
MS M.187 fol. 112r

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Scene, Liturgical: Obsequies -- Foremost of four clerics, all tonsured, wears cope and holds open book. They stand opposite acolyte raising aspergil with right hand and holding processional cross with left hand. He stands beside bier draped with pall inscribed with fleur-le-lis (?).
Scene in initial D, in church with wooden ceiling and arcade of four arches.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament inhabited by butterfly, birds, deer and rabbit.