The decorative arts ecclesiastical and civil of the Middle Ages (1851)
Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873 · London, William Pickering · leaf 53
thrown over the outttretched fingers of the lefthand; afterwards it came to be borne, as now, fattened on the wrift. The more general type of the ttole and maniple was for them to runquite ttraight all through, yet, every now and then, examples are metwith, fhewing the ends of both thefe clerical… … A PYX OF ENCRUSTED ENAMEL. IN THE POSSESSION OF H. MAGNIAC, ESQ^ HE Pyx during the earlier ages of theCatholic Church was commonly formedin the fhape of a Dove. This cuftom, however, feems to havebeen generally changed by the begin-ning of the thirteenth century, as noneare known to have been made…
Decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Church decoration and ornament
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