Maniple

Spanish

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Appliquéd crosses of wide gilt-metal-thread tape decorate this maniple (a long, narrow piece of material used in the liturgy), made of plain yellowish green silk cut velvet from seventeenth-century Spain.The maniple, which is completed at both ends with gilt metal fringe, forms a set with a burse (a square pocketlike receptacle for the corporal, or the cloth used to cover the elements of the Eucharist)in the Lehman Collection (1975.1.1875B).

Maniple, silk; linen; metal, Spanish

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