Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Miscellany
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1370
MS M.800 fol. 42v

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Scene: Liturgical, Celebration of Mass -- Priest, as half figure, holds wafer in left hand, and with his right hand grasps corporale covering chalice on draped altar before triptych-retable representing half figure of nimbed saint.
Scene within initial P decorated with foliate ornament, for Communion in Canon of the Mass.