This parchment was used to make a bishop’s mitre. The image is owned by and published with permission from the Arnamagnæan Collection in Copenhagen, AM 666 b 4to, 3v-4r.

ALBANY — Karl Felsen’s wife, Carol, adjusted a red bishop’s miter and handed a wooden shepherd’s staff to her 6-foot-5 husband, who towered nearly 8-feet tall with the prelate’s headgear.