Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Pontifical
France, perhaps Burgundy, ca. 1485
MS M.347 fol. 24r

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Scene, Liturgical: Blessing of Altar Parements -- Bishop, wearing miter with infulae, stands resting left hand on draped altar, and raising right hand in blessing over the altar on which is burse (?), and behind which is retable on which is relief of Virgin Mary and Christ Child. At left stands group of clergy, wearing hats, except for deacon, tonsured, draped hands crossed on abdomen. At right, cleric, probably deacon, tonsured, stands holding crozier.