Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 293r

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Bust of Christ, crossed nimbus, enclosed in initial D, decorated with foliate ornament. Margins decorated with foliate ornament, knots and gold balls; in left margin, cleric, tonsured, standing on rock, looking and gesturing toward text of second lesson. Pen flourished initials. Text is first lesson, first nocturn for Matins in Common of Several Martyrs.