Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Prayer book
France, Paris, ca. 1490
MS H.3 fol. 33r

See more information »

Scene, Liturgical: Burial -- Man wearing hat, holds with both arms, as if embracing, corpse over open grave. The corpse is enclosed in sewn shroud inscribed with cross. At head of the grave stand: acolyte, tonsured, holding with right hand situla in which is aspergil, and double-armed processional cross with left hand; priest, tonsured, wearing cope with morse, holding with right hand open book also held by left hand of one of two tonsured clerics. Behind them are two mourners, hooded, three men wearing hats, and tops of two other hats. In background, are three other men wearing hats, standing in arches, above which is ossuary in which skulls are visible.
Exterior scene. At right, porch over building entrance, supported by two columns, and surmounted by gable decorated with archictural ornament.
Branch as line endings.