Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Gradual
France, Dijon, 1470
MS M.115 fol. 130v

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Trinity: Mercy Seat -- God, nimbed, wearing triple-crowned tiara, sits on bench and holds arms of cross, to which Christ, nimbed, in loin cloth, with His head inclined, is affixed with three nails. The dove of Holy Ghost descends toward Christ's head.
Scene in room with six windows, within decorated initial B.
Margins decorated with floreate border, including roses, inhabited by lion flanking escutcheon with arms of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (quarterly burgundy modern and ancient) impaled with those of his wife, Margaret III, countess of Flanders (or a lion rampant sable).
Profile face of bishop, wearing miter and eyeglasses, in decorated intitial B.