Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 217r

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Nude bust of cleric, tonsured, enclosed in initial H, decorated with foliage. Margins decorated with geometric and foliate ornament, knots and gold balls; in upper margin, man, prone on elbows and knees, resting head on hands. Pen flourished initials. Text is seventh lesson, third nocturn for Matins on sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost.