Third Sunday in September (Tobias), Lessons 2-6; Weekdays after 3rd Sunday September (Tobias), 1st Vespers

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Museo Civico Schifanoia, Inv. OA 1631

Ferrara, Italy

Third Sunday in September (Tobias), Lessons 2-6; Weekdays after 3rd Sunday September (Tobias), 1st Vespers

Incipit, recto: [...quos Hieroboam fecerat]//rex Isr[ahe]l hic solus fugiebat c[on]sortia om[n]ium...
Explicit, verso: A[ntiphon]. Ing[re]ssus e[st] Raphael archangel[us] ad Tobiam et salutavit eu[m] dice[n]s gaudiu[m]//[ tibi semper sit cui Tobias...]
[Consecutive before BB_Llang_0018]

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

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

Decoration, recto: 3 two-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 1 two-line initial; 2 vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms, border in outer margin inhabited by a profile portrait of a woman.

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; Sotheby's ("Banaster" sale) 23 June 1998, Lot 23.

Text: Temporale

Federica Toniolo, Il lungo viaggio del Breviario di Lionello d'Este tra le due sponde dell'Atlantico, in
Medioevo: arte e storia, Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Parma, 18-22 settembre 2007, a cura di A. C. Quintavalle, Università di Parma e Mondatori Electa, Milano 2008 (I convegni di Parma, 10), 564-577.