Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1420
M.374 fol. 146r

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Within initial G, group of saints, nimbed, including Jerome, wearing cardinal's hat and vestments, holding book with both hands; Cornelius, Pope, wearing triple-crowned tiara and gloves, holding processional cross with right hand and horn with left hand; bishop, wearing miter, raising right hand in blessing, holding crozier with left hand; saint, possibly Apostle Paul, holding book with right hand, raising left hand; monk, possibly Anthony of Padua, tonsured, wearing habit of Franciscan with knotted cincture, holding book with both hands; woman, veiled; Francis of Assisi, tonsured, showing wounds in hands; others only partially visible.
Red background decorated with gold scroll.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux, some emerging from ends of vertical bars in center.
Beginning of Introit for feast of All Saints, 11.01.