Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, Paris, ca. 1350
MS M.75 fol. 545r

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Scene, Liturgical: Consecration of Altar, Asperging -- Deacon, tonsured, right hand holding situla, left hand holding processional cross, stands behind bishop, wearing miter, left hand holding crozier, right hand holding aspergil, before draped altar with draped chalice.
Scene against patterned background in barbed quatrefoil.
In lower margin (bas-de-page), hybrid woman holding object, possibly sword, stands before hybrid woman, holding object, possibly book.
In margins, foliate extensions inhabited by birds.