Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
Florence, Italy, or in Avignon, France, during the late 1320s
MS M.713 fol. 58r

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Scene, Liturgical: Celebration of Mass -- Tonsured priest bends over draped altar on which are chalice and two candles in candlesticks.
Scene within decorated initial T.
In left margin, deacon crosses arms in prayer, and subdeacon holds draped paten.
In lower margin, (bas-de-page), half figure of angel emerges from roundel, holding two burning candles in candlesticks, lit by two acolytes, each in roundel.
Foliate border surrounds text.