Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 265v

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Bust of woman, head turned, enclosed in initial A decorated with foliate ornament. Margins decorated with foliate ornament and gold balls; man wearing hood, holding glass in raised left hand, seated on pillow in left margin. Pen flourished initials. Text is first lesson, first nocturn for Matins on 7.25, feast of Apostle James Major.