Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 137v

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Bust of soldier, wearing helmet over cap, enclosed in initial U decorated with foliate ornament. Margins decorated with foliate ornament and gold balls; man wearing hat, supporting head with right hand, grasping tendril with left hand, reclines in upper margin. Pen flourished initials. Text is first lesson, first Nocturn, for Matins on Ash Wednesday.