Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Italy, Bologna, ca. 1370
MS M.800 fol. 43v

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Scene: Liturgical, Celebration of Mass -- Cleric wearing cap, with hands clasped, kneels beside priest placing corporale on chalice, on draped altar on which is triptych-retable, representing busts of two saints (?).
Scene within initial P decorated with foliate ornament, for Communion in Canon of the Mass.