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Tuesday, 08 November 2016 16:16
Vatican Cope
The Vatican Museum houses a cope that was made in England in the late thirteenth century in the tradition of opus anglicanum. It has a red silk ground material, and is embroidered with gold and silver-gilt threads and silk. It measures 137.2 x 309.9 cm. Originally it was larger; it has been trimmed along the semi-circular edge. It is kept in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticano, Museo Sacro, acc. no. 2447.
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