Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1390-1400
MS M.141 fol. 109r

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Scene, Liturgical: Obsequies -- Bier, draped with pall, is surrounded by catafalque with four lighted candles. Behind catafalque are three (?) mourners wearing black hats, hoods, and robes, and three clerics, tonsured, standing before lectern, one indicating open book on lectern.
Miniature in framed barbed quatrefoil. Initial D with foliate ornament. In margins, rectilinear bars with foliate ornament.