TAA i.3.30.1.verso

with other vestments, to be possibly some 

prototype of the mass vestment "the maniple". 

It said that the R. C. Church derived the 

maniple from the Roman clergy of the fourth

IV^th century. But, whence did they get it? 

Might it not be of Pharaonic origin? – like 

the dalmatic & gloves. At least the existence 

of such an article in the XIIV^th century B.C., is 

food for speculation!