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Missal

Unknown · 1234 · 3 pictures

This missal is a Latin liturgical book for Mass, produced around 1234 by an unknown scribe and painter, probably in France or England, and made for use in church services. Its pages carry gold-leaf backgrounds, blue and red painted figures, and framed scenes such as the Crucifixion and an enthroned Christ, offering a designer examples of medieval gilded framing and tightly ordered religious composition.

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