Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 117v

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Man wearing gray garment, indicating text with right hand, with right foot on stone mound, left foot in initial I. Above him woman, standing, grasping mantle with right hand, extending left hand into upper margin, holding pitcher next to glass. Margins decorated with little foliate ornament with gold balls. Pen-flourished initials. Text is first lesson in first nocturn of Matins, for 01.13, octave of the feast of the Epiphany.