Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1420
M.374 fol. 144r

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Within initial G, Francis of Assisi, rays as nimbus, tonsured, wearing Franciscan habit with knotted cincture, stands orant, showing wounds in hands, sides and feet.
Background of dado below blue wall decorated with gold ornament.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux, some emerging from ends of vertical bar in left margin.
Beginning of Introit for feast of Francis of Assisi, 10.04.