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Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 281r

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Monk, tonsured, wearing gray habit, holding book with both hands, with barefeet, standing on pillow before initial I Margins decorated with foliate ornament and gold balls; in upper margin, man, reclining, extending right arm to drapery in center margin. Pen flourished initials. Text is first lesson, first nocturn for Matins on 09.30, feast of Jerome.



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