Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, perhaps Tournai, 1480s
MS M.234 fol. 108v

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Scene, Liturgical: Obsequies -- Chapelle ardente with 17 candles rises above coffin draped with pall inscribed with cross and heraldic shields. At left stand three clerics, the third swinging censer with right hand over coffin, and one acolyte, holding edge of cope of third cleric. At right stand cleric, tonsured, with joined hands, wearing black hooded cape. Behind him stand six (?) hooded mourners.
Scene in church with traceried windows, and columns.
Margins decorated with foliate border.