Pentecost, First Vespers-Matins, Lesson 3

BB_Llang_0012

American Academy in Rome, Rare Book Room, s.n.

Rome, Italy

Pentecost, First Vespers-Matins, Lesson 3

Incipit, recto: [...noscamus atque filium]//te utriusque sp[iritu]m credamus omni t[em]p[o]re...[consecutive after BB_Llang_0103]
Explicit, verso: Loquebant[ur] variis linguis apostoli magnalia dei, et c[oeperunt]. Lec[tio] iii.//[Et pater meus diliget eum...]

Single leaf; parchment; 275 x 200 (170 x 130) mm

Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.

Decoration, recto: 1 four-line historiated initial with Pentecost, 1 two-line initial, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 1 three-line inhabited initial with a bearded Saint, 2 two-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms.

Giorgio d'Alemagna (active 1441-1479) and others

Ferrara, Italy

Latin

1441-1448

Leonello d'Este (1407-1450), Marchese of Ferrara, patron; John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (1837 – 1912), former owner; gift from Robert S. Pirie, ca. 1958.

Text: Temporale