‘Miniature of a funeral mass’, from Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
(England, S. E. (London), c.1440-c.1450),
Shelfmark: Harley 2915 f. 55v, © British Library Board.

‘Clerics and mourners surrounding a black-draped coffin’ from Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (‘The Hours of the Earls of Ormond’) (England, c.1460 (before 1467)),
Shelfmark: Harley 2887 f. 80, © British Library Board.

‘Office of the Dead (funeral service)’ from Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, (England, S. E. (Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds?), 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century),
Shelfmark: Arundel 302 f. 77v, © British Library Board.

‘Office of the Dead (funeral service)’ from Book of Hours, including Hours of the Holy Spirit and of the Passion, (England, 3rd quarter of the 13th century),
shelfmark: Egerton 1151 f. 118, © British Library Board.

John Lydgate, ‘Offa’s funeral’ from Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, in the presentation copy for Henry VI’, (England, between 1434 and 1439),
shelfmark: Harley 2278  f. 22, © British Library Board.

John Lydgate, ‘Offa’s funeral’ from Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, in the presentation copy for Henry VI’, (England, between 1434 and 1439),
shelfmark: Harley 2278  f. 22v, © British Library Board.

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