Feast of St. Maurelius (May 7), Matins, Lessons 1-2

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Sotheby's, 25 April 1983, Lot 133, fol. d

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Sotheby's, Single Leaves and Miniatures from Western Illuminated Manuscripts, London, April 25, 1983, Lot 133, p. 198-200.

Feast of St. Maurelius (May 7), Matins, Lessons 1-2

Incipit, recto: no image
Explicit, verso: ...ut p[ro]p[ri]um filiu[m]dilegerent et herede[m]. Hic inventutis//[sue flore omnium liberalium...]

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

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

Decoration, recto: no image; verso: 1 four-line inhabited initial with St. Maurelius (patron saint of Ferrara), 1 two-line initial, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms, large initial excised from column two.

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; Esther Rosenbaum, (d. 1980).

Text: Sanctorale