Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1315-1325
MS M.0373 fol. 154v

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Bust of man looking upward, enclosed in initial A decorated with foliate ornament. Margins decorated with foliate ornament and gold balls; in upper center margin, back-turned man wearing soft hat, standing. Pen flourished initials. Text is first lesson, first nocturn for Matins on Monday in fourth week of Lent.