Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Pontifical
France, perhaps Burgundy, ca. 1485
MS M.347 fol. 62r

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Scene, Liturgical: Visitation of Sick -- Acolyte, tonsured, carrying situla containing aspergil with right hand and holding crucifix with left hand, stands behind priest, tonsured, wearing stole, holding open book with left hand and raising right hand in blessing. He looks toward nude man, wearing headgear reclining in draped bed with his head on pillows. Woman, wearing headdress, her hands extended, stands beside the bed. At left in doorway stand six (?) men, wearing hats, some only hats visible, the foremost with joined hands.
Scene in room with windows below arch decorated with foliate ornament and tracery.