Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Sacramentary
France, Mont-Saint-Michel, ca. 1060
MS M.641 fol. 6r

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Personification: Church -- Personification of Church, crowned, stands, holding crown in right hand and palm branch in left hand, flanked by busts of ten Innocents.
Figures within initial D partly formed by fantastic animal hugged by man and decorated with animal head, at beginning of Collect for Feast of Holy Innocents.