Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and historyMacalister, Robert Alexander Stewart
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Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and history
Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart
Church vestments
_Birds and beasts, or parts thereof_:
Leopards.
Harts.
Falcons.
Falcons bearing crowns of gold in their mouths (probably heraldic).
Swans.
Ostriches.
Ostrich feathers.
Popinjays.
Lions.
Owls.
Black eagles.
Peacocks.
Gryphons.
Dragons.
Phœnix.
_Miscellaneous_:
Knots.
Clouds.
Crowns.
(Also a few others, properly included under Group II.)
GROUP II
_Divine Persons_:
The Holy Trinity.
Our Lord.
The Majesty.
The Holy Ghost, Crucifix, and St Mary the Virgin.
_Incidents in the life of Our Lord, and His emblems_:
Our Lord with the Cross.
The Passion, in scenes.
The Crucifixion.
Ditto, with SS Mary and John on either side.
Ditto, ditto, the Father above.
The Ascension.
Our Lord sitting on the rainbow.
The root of Jesse.
The vernacle.
The Holy Lamb.
Crosses.
_Members of the Holy Host of Heaven_:
[Archangels, angels, and images, passim.]
Two angels singing.
Two angels incensing.
An angel bearing a crown.
Two angels bearing St John Baptist's head (properly heraldic).
An angel with a harp.
_Scenes in the life of St Mary the Virgin and her emblems_:
Salutation.
St Mary; on the left side three kings, on the right two shepherds,
and an angel with 'Gloria in excelsis.'
St Mary with the Holy Child.
Ditto, and St Mary Magdalene.
Burial.
Assumption.
Coronation.
'Our lady of pity.'
Wm. Marshall (donor of vestment) kneeling to the Virgin.
Suns, Moons, Stars.
Roses, lilies. (See Group I.)
_Other Saints and their emblems_:
'History of Apostles and Martyrs.'
St Peter.
St Catherine.
St Catherine (the tomb springing oil).
St John Baptist.
St Bartholomew.
History of St John Baptist, } Probably in different
History of St Thomas, } scenes.
Wheels (St Catherine).
Keys (St Peter).
The Majesty, SS Mary the Virgin, Peter, Paul, the four evangelists,
and a man kneeling to them.
_Various Scenes in Sacred History_:
Eve eating of the tree.
The massacre of the innocents.
The last judgment.
_Uncertain and Miscellaneous Subjects_:
A bishop (probably some saint).
A king (perhaps King David).
Kings and prophets.
Two kings crowned.
_Inscriptions_:
The hye wey ys best.
'Divers verses.'
Da gloriam deo.
Gracia dei sum, etc.
Vox domini super aquas.
Cena dñi.
Also the following, which form a connecting-link between the second and
third groups, being requests for prayers for the donors of vestments:
Orate pro anima Magistri Willelmi Skelton.
" " Willelmi Spenser capellani.
" " Magistri Ricardi Smyth vycar de Worseworth.
" " Roberti Dercy.
Memoriale Willelmi Marshall olim virgarii hujus ecclesiae.
GROUP III
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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