Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 610
the procession, were paid tothe effigy. The gentlemen of the chamber to Francis I., with straps aroundtheir necks, esteemed it an honour to bear the effigy of their late master;those who had been in the service of Henry II. only walked by the side ofhis effigy, holding up the pall of cloth of gold.… … Fig. 400.— Mortuary Cloth from the Church of Folleville (Somme), now in the Museum at Amiens(Sixteenth Century).—The cloth thrown over the coffin formed three crosses; the centre ofthe largest of these lay over the breast of the deceased, the two others covered the two sidesof the bier; upon the…
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