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Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 251v

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Bust of man wearing soft hat, enclosed in initial C. Margins decorated with foliate ornament and gold balls; kneeling in lower left margin, monk, tonsured, with joined hands raised, wearing gray habit and red mantle. Pen flourished initials. Text is first lesson, first nocturn for 5.1, feast of Apostles Philip and James Minor.



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