The Pontifical of Renaud de Bar
Office for the Dedication of a Church
Texts and Images
This long text has nineteen large miniatures, several of which are displayed on the right. The cycle opens with an illustration of a group of people praying in front of a reliquary (a shrine containing saintly relics) on the eve of the dedication of a church (fol. 1r). It ends with a miniature showing a bishop and clergy processing towards the altar before celebrating the Mass of dedication (fol. 50r).
Bishop, processing and blessing an altar (Office for the Dedication of a Church)
The partial bar border is decorated with a hybrid and foliate motifs. Five singing clerics stand before a lectern on which a book rests in the historiated initial T. In the bas-de-page, an archer shoots a bird, probably a crossbill.