Readings from the Book of Kings from after the the Octave of Pentecost- the First Sunday of August

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Voelkle MS 01

New York, New York

William Voelkle Collection

Readings from the Book of Kings from after the the Octave of Pentecost- the First Sunday of August

Incipit, recto: [III Kings 1:25-26] [...bibentibus coram eo et dicenti]//bus vivat rex Adonias met servum tuum...
Explicit, verso: [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