[Illustration: FIG. 4.--COPE OF EMBROIDERED PURPLE SILK VELVET.
In the middle is represented the Assumption of the Virgin, on the hood
is a seated figure of the Almighty bearing three souls in a napkin.
ENGLISH, about 1500. (In the Victoria and Albert Museum.)]
[Illustration: FIG. 5.--COPE MORSE (GERMAN, 14TH CENTURY) IN THE
CATHEDRAL AT AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
(_From a photograph by Father Joseph Braun, S. J._)]
[Illustration: FIG. 6.--COPE MORSE (GERMAN, EARLY 14TH CENTURY), IN THE
PARISH CHURCH AT ELTEN.
(_From a photograph by Father Joseph Braun, S. J._)]