Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 255r

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Bust of cleric, tonsured, enclosed in initial C. Margins decorated with foliate ornament and gold balls; in lower margin, man wearing hat, prone, holding spear with extended hands. Pen flourished initials. Text is first lesson, first nocturn for Matins on 6.19, feast of Gervasius and Protasius, both of Milan.