Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Pontifical
France, perhaps Burgundy, ca. 1485
MS M.347 fol. 32r

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Scene, Liturgical: Blessing of eucharistic Vessels -- Bishop, wearing miter with infulae, and chasuable, stands, extending left hand toward and raising right hand over, chalice on draped altar, behind which is retable on which is relief of Virgin Mary and Christ Child. At left, behind the bishop, stand four clerics, tonsured, including two priests wearing copes, one possibly holding crozier, and one deacon wearing dalmatic; only tonsure of fourth is visible. At right, next to altar stands deacon, tonsured, wearing dalmatic.
Scene below architectural arch decorated with tracery and foliate ornament.