A catalog of the antiquities and works of art, exhibited at Ironmongers' Hall, London, in the month of May, 1861 (1869)
London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, French, George Russell, 1803-1881, London (England). Ironmongers' Company · [S.l. : s.n.] · leaf 225
with figured in art-works, fastened high upon the breast of a dignified priest, an abbot, butespecially a bishop, arrayed in his mass-vestments. Being worn in imitation, it had given to itthe name of the ancient Aaronic rational, and the ornament itself, happening to be kept in usenot much above… … It is in gilt copiDer, mounted on wood, so as to make it very light. Its shape is a quatrefoil,in each foliation of which there is, in high relief, a bust of an Apostle : in the middle sits anAngel, with the legend Matheus. It seems to have been fastened to the chasuble by meansof a long vertical…
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