Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 38v

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Initial C enclosing tonsured monk, wearing pink habit, right hand resting on open book on lectern before him. Center margin decorated with foliate ornament with gold balls, and inhabited by tonsured monk wearing gray habit, hands extended to the initial. Text is Psalm 98 (Vulg., 97).