Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 272r

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Bust of cleric, tonsured, enclosed in initial H decorated with foliate ornament. Margins decorated with foliate ornament, knots and gold balls. Pen flourished initials. Text is first lesson, first nocturn for Matins within the Octave of the Assumption of Virgin Mary.