Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, ca. 1460
MS M.1084 fol. 91r

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Scene, Liturgical: Obsequies -- In foreground, two mourners, heads covered, one with joined hands, sit before bier draped with pall. At left is cleric, tonsured, holding processional cross. Behind the bier, stands another cleric, tonsured, holding aspergil (?) with right hand and resting left hand on open book on the bier. Behind him are four clerics, tonsured.
Margins decorated with border of foliate ornament and rinceaux.