Feast of St. Stephen (Dec 26), End of First Vespers-Matins, Lesson 6

BB_Lang_0100

Columbus_MS_s.n.

Columbus, Ohio

Private Collection

Feast of St. Stephen (Dec 26), End of First Vespers-Matins, Lesson 6

Incipit, recto: [Da nobis quaesumusd omine imitari]//quod colimus, ut discamus et inimicos diligere...[Consecutive after BB_Lang_0002]
Explicit, verso: Heri praesepis angustia Christum porta//[vit infantem: hodie immensitas caeli suscepit...]

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: 3 two-line initials, one vertical bar extension terminating in floral and foliate forms, vertical border of foliate forms enveloping large gold balls in outer margin.

Giorgio d'Alemagna (active 1441-1479) and others

Ferrara, Italy

Latin

1441-1448

Leonello d'Este (1407-1450), Marchese of Ferrara, patron and first owner; 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.