Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 267v

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Bust of woman wearing diadem (crown), looking toward left, enclosed in initial T. In left margin, man, leaning over, look toward, and indicating with right hand, the initial T. Margins decorated with foliate ornament, knot and gold balls. Pen flourished initials. Text is first lesson, first nocturn for Matins on 8.3, feast of Stephen Protomartyr, Invention of Relics.