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To me, the object looks like a partially unrolled scroll. The top of the 
object, held in front of the wing on the viewer's right, is composed of 
a roughly cylindrical part with an extension curling around behind it. 
The edge of the curling extension appears just to our right of the main 
cylindrical part. Everything below that is hidden by the angel's veiled 
proper left hand. The edge of the drapery covering that hand is pulled 
tight by the other hand, looking somewhat like a stick, but if you look 
carefully you will see that small folds radiate out from behind the 
knuckles of the proper right hand. Those folds demonstrate that what the 
hand grasps is in fact drapery. (To see any of this detail, you have to 
click on the largest version of the photo.)
A book in scroll form would be a logical counterpart for a book in codex 
form above.
Genevra

>     Can anybody identify the odd object held in the hands of the lower
>     of these two medieval angels:
>     http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=chartres_fn;op2=or;rgn2=chartres_fn;op3=or;rgn3=chartres_fn;op4=or;rgn4=chartres_fn;op5=or;rgn5=chartres_fn;op6=not;rgn6=chartres_fn;op7=not;rgn7=chartres_fn;q1=FCSP131%2A;q2=FCSP132%2A;q3=FCSP133%2A;q4=FCSP130%2A;q5=FCSP135%2A;q6=FCSP1355%2A;q7=FCSP1357%2A;size=20;c=chartres;back=back1430950606;subview=detail;resnum=20;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=chartres;entryid=x-fcsp13500100;viewid=FCSP13500100.TIF
>

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