Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 279v

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Enclosed in initial A decorated with foliate ornament, bust of woman wearing diadem (crown), facing left, looking up toward cleric, possibly monk, tonsured, wearing habit with hood, looking left, indicating with right hand, text of antiphon at right, standing in center margin. Margins decorated with foliate ornament and gold balls. Text is first lesson, first nocturn for Matins on 09.29, feast of Archangel Michael.