Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

La vérité à la place des ombres
France, Paris, 1679
MS M.21 fol. 46r

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At the top is a plaque with the inscription, ILLE JUSTUS EST. A monstrance stands on an altar, showing emblems of the Passion including the cross, ladder, and spear with sponge, and column beneath a curtain flanked by vines bearing bunches of grapes emerging from gilded acanthus leaves. There is a quatrain below. The frame consists of burnished and dull gold bands.