Note 285 — Chapter I · THE CHURCH’S YEAR (continued 2)
Reading edition
The oldest pictorial representation of the Corpus Christi procession is probably that contained in the chronicle of the Council of Constance, by Ulrich of Richental (49 et seqq.). The original MS. is in the Rosgarten Museum at Constance; it is reproduced in No. 158 of the Stuttgart Literar. Verein of 1882 (Photolitographie by H. Bach). It represents the procession as it took place during the council in the year 1415. The monstrance is carried by two ecclesiastics on a sort of small platform.