Costume, Ecclesiastical
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Encyclopedia article on the official dress of clergy, covering its development from Jewish priestly dress and the early Christian church to the present. It describes Western vestments (chasuble, stole, alb, cope, surplice, and episcopal items such as mitre and pallium), Eastern, Anglican, Protestant and monastic costume, and liturgical colors. It includes engraved plates of vestments, a bishop series, and a Jesuit in mandarin dress, and ends with a bibliography.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 7
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