Psalms 80:09-84:04

BB_Llang_0023

MS Gordon, fol. a

Bethesda, MD

Private Collection

Psalms 80:09-84:04

Incipit, recto: [Audi populus]//meus et contestabor te Israhel si audias me...
Explicit, verso: Mitigasti omne[m] ira[m]//[ tuam avertisti ab ira...]

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, 22 one-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 2 two-line initials, 26 one-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms, one inhabited border with a profile portrait of a young man.

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.

Text: Psalter

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.