Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1420
M.374 fol. 138v

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Within initial M, Apostle Bartholomew, rays as nimbus, holding book with right hand and knife with left hand, standing before dado below blue wall decorated with gold scrollwork.
Beginning of Introit for feast of the Apostle Bartholomew, 08.24.
Within initial D, Louis IX of France, rays as nimbus, wears miter, habit (?) with knotted cord, and mantle decorated with heraldry (France a label gules), holding book with right hand and crozier with left hand.
Background of dado below red wall decorated with gold scrollwork.
Beginning of Collect for feast of Louis IX of France, 08.25.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux, some emerging from ends of vertical bars.