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 622
FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 499 the community of criers died, in Paris, all the others were present at hisfuneral in the dress of their order, the body being borne by four of hiscolleagues. Two others followed the coffin, one having a handsome goblet … Fig. 407.—Mortuary Roll of the blessed Vital, founder of the Abbey of Savigny (in the diocese ofAvranches), who died on the 16th of September, 1122 ; it measures twenty-nine feet nine inchesin length by eight and a half inches in breadth. One of the words in this roll commenceswith a capital T,…
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