VELO OMERALE — V. O. in velvet, embossed, late 15th century — Rome, Sangiorgi collection.
[Andrieu], I, 84; V, 55; VI, 50), covered the oblata after their preparation. From the 13th–14th century (Ord. Rom. [Mabillon], XVI, 53, of the year 1311) the manner of wearing the veil changed: the edge, which was not used to hold the paten, hung down the back from the right shoulder («cuius extremitas defluere debet post dextrum humerum»). The present form of the V. o. came into use in Rome no earlier than the 15th century (Ordo Rom., XV [Mabillon]).
The veil of the acolyte wearing the mitre, called “tobalea,” still absent in the time of Durandus (d. 1296), is already mentioned in the Ordo of Julius Cajetanus (XIV, 53 [Mabillon]) of 1311.
The veil for the Eucharistic blessing came into use in the 14th century (Ord. Rom., XIV [Mabillon], 77); it was of silk and was first worn like the subdiaconal veil (the edge hung over the left shoulder «sibi pendet super humerum sinistrum»), then like the V. o.