Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1420
M.374 fol. 136v

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Within initial F, Clara of Assisi, rays as nimbus, as abbess, veiled with wimple, wearing habit, holding monstrance with right hand and crozier with left hand. Background of dado below red wall decorated with red scrollwork.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux, some emerging from ends of vertical bar in left margin.
Beginning of Collect for feast of Clara of Assisi, 08.12