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Curator's Choice: English missal
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My chosen item is a large English missal, handwritten during the
second half of the 14th century and lavishly decorated. A missal
contains the text and information of the mass and was used
exclusively by the clergy in the context of worship. The book was
probably placed on the altar and included stage directions written
in red to tell the priest what to do next.
The decorations around the capitals in this book are mainly
floral but on some of them you can see little faces in the smalle...
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