Saturday, 4th week of Lent, Lesson 2-Passion Sunday, 1st nocturne, Hymn

BB_Llang_0098

MS Gordon, fol. c

Bethesda, MD

Private Collection

Saturday, 4th week of Lent, Lesson 2-Passion Sunday, 1st nocturne, Hymn

Incipit, recto: [...improbat tale commentum et diabo]//licam doctrinam esse cognoscit...
Explicit, verso: Gloria et honor deo usquequo altis//[simo una patri filoque...]

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

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

Decoration, recto: 1 three-line initial, 3 two-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 2 two-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms.

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: Temporale

Debra Taylor Cashion, in The Burke Collection of Italian Manuscripts Paintings, ed. S. Hindman and F. Toniolo, 2021, no. 32, pp. 322-331.