Specific colours used for vestments and hangings within the context of Christian liturgy

Harpocrates, sive explicatio imagunculae argenteae perantiquae; quae in figuram Harpocratis formata representat solem. Ejusdem monumenta antiqua inedita / Multi auctorum loci, multae inscriptiones ... in utroque opusculo emendantur & illustrantur. Accedit Stephani le Moine Epistola de melanophoris.

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Colors, Liturgical

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Harpocrates, sive explicatio imagunculae argenteae perantiquae; quae in figuram Harpocratis formata representat solem. Ejusdem monumenta antiqua inedita / Multi auctorum loci, multae inscriptiones ... in utroque opusculo emendantur & illustrantur. Accedit Stephani le Moine Epistola de melanophoris.