Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Pontifical
France, perhaps Burgundy, ca. 1485
MS M.347 fol. 49r

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Scene, Liturgical: Baptism -- Priest, tonsured, wearing stole, stands raising right hand and holding book with left hand. At left, two men, wearing hats, raise left hands and extend right hands toward the right where two women, veiled, stand, the foremost holding infant in gown. Acolyte, tonsured, stands next to priest. Scene in church with windows, and with draped altar with retable in background.
Scene below ogee arch with tracery ornament.