Title
Beginning of Sanctorale: Feast of St. Saturninus (Nov. 29); St. Andrew (Nov. 30), First Vespers-Matins, Lesson 2
Table Of Contents
Incipit, recto: //Incipiunt festivitate[s] sanctorum p[er] anni circulum. In s[an]cti Saturnini ma[r]tiris. or[ati]o...
Explicit, verso: ...qui veri dii no[n] su[n]t animum revocares. Cui//[Aegeas dixit. Tu es Andreas...] [Consecutive before BB_Llang_0027]
Description
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Decoration, recto: 1 four-line initial, 1 three-line initial, 4 two-line initials, lower outer corner of parchment excised; one vertical bar extension terminating in floral and foliate forms, vertical border of foliate forms in outer margin; verso: 1 ten-line inhabited initial with the Crucifixion of St. Peter, 1 five-line inhabited initial with St. Andrew, 1 two-line initial; full border inhabited by putti, animals, and five portrait medallions, a likely sixth one excised with lower outer corner.
Provenance
Leonello d'Este (1407-1450), Marchese of Ferrara, patron; John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (1837 – 1912), former owner; Gift from Philip Hofer, 1967.
References
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.
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