Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 231r

See more information »

Man walking into initial I, wearing diadem (crown) and short tunic, holding leaf with left hand and scroll with pseudo-inscription in right hand. Margins decorated with foliate ornament and gold balls; back-turned man indicating text of second lesson with raised right hand, standing in bottom of center margin. Pen flourished initials. Text is first lesson, first nocturn for Matins on 12.07, feast of Ambrose of Milan.