Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
France, possibly Toulouse, ca. 1490
M.463 fol. 547v

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Scene, Liturgical: receiving Communion -- Man, holding candle. in left hand, stand behind tonsured priest, holding vessel in left hadnnad with right hand extending wafer (host) toward Gerardus (?), wearing monk's robes, kneeling, holding rosary in his joined hands, raised. Scene in front of building with portal, in landscapse setting.
Margin is decorated with floreate border.