The Pontifical of Renaud de Bar

Blessing of an Abbot of Monks

Texts and Images

This section has five large miniatures. The first one shows a newly elected abbot being presented to a bishop (fol. 63r) and the final one depicts the same abbot receiving a crosier from the bishop (fol. 73r).

Bishop praying from a book (Blessing of an Abbot of Monks)

The miniature is so detailed that it is possible to read the lines of text written in the bishop’s book.

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