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Image 444 An illuminated initial for All Saints Day (1 November) from the Ranworth Antiphonal, a manuscript made c.1460-80, perhaps in Norwich and containing various unusual illustrative features. Thus here: the initial depicts a conflated subject of a Crucifix-Trinity acting as a ‘Schutzmantel' (mantle of protection) figure, in which God or the Virgin Mary hold their cloak spread wide to protect those visibly sheltering beneath it. This image is possibly the only use of such a figure in extant medieval English book illustration. (Scott 1996, 325-6)

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