Feasts of Pope Leo II (June28), Matins, Lessons 3-6; Saints Peter & Paul (June 29), 1st Vespers-Matins

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Michigan State, Broad Art Museum, MSU Purchase 67.13

East Lansing, MI

Feasts of Pope Leo II (June28), Matins, Lessons 3-6; Saints Peter & Paul (June 29), 1st Vespers-Matins

Incipit, recto: [...quinquaginta episcopi. Lectio tercia.]//In qua synodo condemnati sunt syrus, Sergius, Honorius...[Consecutive after BB_Llang_0090]
Explicit, verso: Rege apostolorum dominum venite adoremus. ps[almus]//[Venite. Hymnus. Eterna christi munera...] [Consecutive before BB_Llang_0102]

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

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

Decoration, recto: 2 two-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 2 five-line inhabited initials with St. James and Sts. Peter and Paul, 2 two-line initials, one vertical bar extension terminating in floral and foliate forms, vertical border of foliate forms in outer margin.

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

Ferrara, Italy

Latin

1441-1448

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

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Text: Sanctorale