Incunabula at Vassar



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Roman Catholic Church. Processional (Dominican).
Venice: Johann Emerich, 1494

A processional was a Church service book which contained the chants and prayers used for liturgical processions. This page from a Dominican processional is devoted to the feast of the Ascension. We see instructions for the procession, a response, music, and a woodcut depicting Christ ascending into heaven as his disciples look on.

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