This parchment was used to make a bishop’s mitre. The image is owned by and published with permission from the Arnamagnæan Collection in Copenhagen, AM 666 b 4to, 3v-4r.

the late bishop will be dressed in the vestments worn to celebrate the Eucharist. “Insignia of his office would be visible,” he said. “On his head, he’d be wearing a mitre. Around his neck ...