Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Amiens, ca. 1480
MS M.198 fol. 71r

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Scene, Liturgical: Obsequies -- Four tonsured priests stand around lectern with open book with pseudo-inscription suggesting musical notation. Beside them, flanked by two lighted candles in candlesticks, is bier draped in cross-inscribed pall. To right are three hooded mourners. In background, two tonsured priests stand behind third tonsured priest, wearing cross-inscribed vestment, standing with joined hands raised before altar with retable. Scene in church with arched windows and tile floor.
Margins with floreate and vinescroll ornament in heart-shaped patterns, inhabited by bird.