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Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 142r

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Man, kneeling on pillow, looking and indicating, with right hand, upward, at initial I. Margins decorated with floreate ornament and gold balls; in upper margin, monk, tonsured, left hand to head, wearing pink habit, seated, back-turned. Pen flourished initials. Text is first lesson, first nocturn, for Matins on Tuesday in first week of Lent.



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