Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

La vérité à la place des ombres
France, Paris, 1679
MS M.21 fol. 126r

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Below a plaque with the inscription, GUSTAVERUNT ETIAM DONOM COELESTE, is a paneled setting for a monstrance below curtains drawn to the sides by garlands of flowers and surmounted by a coronal cap from which rises a plume of ostrich feathers. On either side above are hanging lamps and vases of flowers. Below, emblems of the Passion include an empty chair, halberds, spears, sword, torch, cross, purse, lantern, sponge, cock, and column. Below there is a quatrain. The frame consists of bands of burnished and dull gold.