Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Angers, between 1465 and 1470
M.248 fol. 87v

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Scene, Liturgical: Funeral Procession -- Four men, at least three of them clerics, two wearing hoods, one visibly tonsured, carry coffin draped with pall into church. Interior of the church is full of tonsured heads, the closest of those clerics wears vestments. Following the coffin is crowd of mourners, hooded.
Statues beneath architectural canopies are to left of door, and on voussoirs surrounding the door.
Below miniature is inscribed VERBA MEA AVRIB(U)S P(ER)CIPE D(OMI)NE INTELIG(E) CLAMORE(M) MEA(M) (Psalm 5:1, Vulg., 5:2).