Missal

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Missal contains a Temporale, benedictions and preparations for the mass, Canon of the Mass, Sanctorale, and votive masses. The first section is a palimpsest written on parchment and was signed by frater Arnoldus in 1472 (151v). Beside a small drawing of a Crucifixion in the beginning of the volume, numerous pen-drawn initials, and three illuminated non-figural initials, the manuscript is decorated with one full-page Crucifixion (79v).

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of medieval and Byzantine art is among the most comprehensive in the world. Displayed in both The Met Fifth Avenue and in the Museum's branch in northern Manhattan, The Met Cloisters, the collection encompasses the art of the Mediterranean and Europe from the fall of Rome in the fourth century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. It also includes pre-medieval European works of art created during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age.

Metropolitan Museum of Art