Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, probably Taranto, 1350-1400
MS M.200 fol. 332v

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Lawrence of Rome, holding palm with right hand, possibly wearing deacon’s vestments. Figure enclosed in initial F decorated with foliate ornament extending into left margin. Text is chapter in first Vespers for 8.10, feast of Lawrence of Rome. Half-figure of man holding book with right hand, extending left hand within initial D decorated with foliate ornament extending into lower margin. Text is collect in first Vespers for 8.10, feast of Lawrence of Rome.