Meanings of old missal in English

In his robes, he is like one of the Three Kings in old missal illuminations.

I see a great likeness to the face in my aunt's old missal, which rises out of a violet lily.

The red house, with its overhanging canopy of elm, stood out like an old missal picture done on a gold ground.

Sepia began at once to rearrange a few hot-house flowers on the mantel-piece, looking herself much like some dark flower painted in an old missal.

It was of tall, slim, fairy-like trees, the kind of wood the monks painted in old missals.

Hagiography was now a lost branch of art, as completely lost as wood carving, and the miniatures of the old missals.

But she answered him in French, a quaint, old -fashioned French such as one rarely finds but in the pages of old missals.

Among the fascinating pursuits of life we must make a large place for the collection of old books, old paintings, old missals and curios.

This is pen-and-ink sketches for the borders of a book (as the old missals were illuminated), which are now preserved in the Royal Library, Munich.