Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Golden legend
Belgium, Bruges, 1445-1465
MS M.672-5 II, fol. 255r

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Scene, Liturgical: Procession -- Two clerics, tonsured, holding bannered processional crosses with crucifixes, lead procession from church. They are followed by two acolytes, tonsured, carrying candles, and Gregory the Great, nimbed, wearing triple-crowned tiara, carrying papal processional cross in right hand and open book in left hand, flanked by two cardinals, wearing vestments, both holding open books. Behind them, within doorway, are several monks, tonsured, carrying open books.