Readings from the Book of Kings from after the the Octave of Pentecost to the Kalends of August

BB_Llang_0101

Voelkle MS 01

New York, New York

William Voelkle Collection

Readings from the Book of Kings from after the the Octave of Pentecost to the Kalends of August

Incipit, recto: [III Kings 1:25-26] [...bibentibus coram eo et dicenti]//bus vivat rex Adonias met servum tuum...
Explicit, verso: [after IV Kings 1:18, Rubric] Notandum...lectiones de homelia ipsius dominice// [leguntur qui totem officium sit de dominca...

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

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

Decoration, recto: 1 six-line inhabited initial, 2 vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: one vertical bar extension terminating in floral and foliate forms, one filigree border with floral and foliate forms in the outer margin.

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.

Label on back of frame: "Framed at Goodspeed's Book Shop, Inc., 18 Beacon Street, Boston, Date 4/21/59, No. 2730"

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.