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The miniature's upper illustration shows the body of Christ lying on a sheet while being anointed; and the lower image represents the pious women visiting the sepulcher on Easter Sunday, bringing oils for the corpse who, however, was no longer there because of the resurrection, as the angel proclaimed:

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. An they were saying to one another: “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”. And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back – it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. And he said to them: “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified! He had risen, he is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you”. And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid. (Mark, 16, 1-8).

On the miniature again, there is a zigzag pattern on the sheet which resembling, according to some but not for me, the Shroud's herringbone weave. On the bottom illustration, there are two groups of tiny circles to form a letter L, similar to the four groups of four holes each, originated from burns, that can be found on the Shroud of Turin (actually, there are other small holes not clearly visible to the visitors, unlike the larger ones). These symmetrical groups of holes are, approximately, in the middle of the four layers which result from a folding of the Cloth in four.