Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 131r

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On initial I, half-figure of physician, wearing hat, fur collar, holding, and looking toward, large urine flask on right hand. Margins decorated with floreate ornament. In center margin, man wearing hood, standing, looking upward, raising left arm, toward text of eighth lesson. Pen flourished initials. Text is seventh lesson of third nocturn for Matins on Septuagesima Sunday.