[509] This date is assigned to it by Monsignor Clifford.
[510] Kindly supplied to me by the Father Superior of San Clemente in Rome.
[511] In the cathedral of Aix, Switzerland. Bock’s “Liturgische Gewänder,” i. taf. ii.
[512] One of these mitres has, it is said, been brought to England.
[513] Bock, “Liturgische Gewänder,” ii. taf. xii. This is dyed in Tyrian purple (rosy red), and is simply the cross, representing the tree with twelve leaves, “for the healing of the nations.”
[514] Bock, “Liturgische Gewänder,” i. taf. iii. pp. 157-160.
[515] Bock, ibid., p. 158, quotes the Jesuit Erasmus Fröhlich, (1754).
[516] See Bock’s “Liturgische Gewänder,” i. taf. iv. pp. 165, 166. “One of three costly garments.”
[517] Modifications of the “wheel pattern” (“wheel and plate”). Of these works of the tenth and eleventh centuries the fine Roman lettering in the borders is a marking characteristic.
[518] See Bock’s “Liturgische Gewänder,” i. p. 214.