Miniature in a manuscript of 1438 containing prayers for the use of the people. By distraction probably the artist has figured a cross on the foot of the chalice as if the chalice of bitterness of Calvary had something in common with the chalice of the divine sacrifice. The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance by Paul Lacroix, 1874

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