F 130r of the Metz Pontifical or the Pontifical of Renaud de Bar at the Fitzwilliam Museum shows the Archbishop handling the bishop a crosier (Office for Consecrating a Bishop.)  On this unfinished leaf we see how after the calligrapher wrote in the text in two colors the illuminator first drew in all the designs before starting to paint them and gild them.

F 130r of the Metz Pontifical or the Pontifical of Renaud de Bar at the Fitzwilliam Museum shows the Archbishop handling the bishop a crosier (Office for Consecrating a Bishop.)  On this unfinished leaf we see how after the calligrapher wrote in the text in two colors the illuminator first drew in all the designs before starting to paint them and gild them.

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