Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi and other devotional texts
England, ca. 1440
MS M.648 fol. 131r

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Priest, decorated nimbus, tonsured, wearing cope, holds with both hands, monstrance containing wafer (host). Small acolyte, wearing hat, holding bell or censer with right hand and candle in left hand is beside the priest. They stand below canopy carried by four angels, decorated nimbi, each holding pole supporting the canopy.
Rectilinear frame enclosing text and miniature decorated with foliate, and vining floreate, ornament.