Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1420
M.374 fol. 117v

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Within initial S, Marcellus I, Pope, rays as nimbus, wearing triple-crowned tiara, holding processional cross with right hand and book with left hand, standing before dado below red background decorated with gold scrollwork.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux, some emerging from ends of vertical bar in left margin.
Beginning of Introit for feast of Marcellus I, Pope, 01.16.