Office of the Dead, Vespers;
Order for the Blessing of the Altar

BB_Llang_0112

Freeman's/Hindman, 27 June 2024, Lot no. 0052

California

Private Collection, MS 226

Office of the Dead, Vespers;
Order for the Blessing of the Altar

Incipit, recto: [... Oratio. Absolve quaesumes domine animas famulorum tuorum ut defuncti seculo tibi vivant et peccata que]// fragilitate carnis humana connversatione commiserant...
Explicit, verso: Postea sacerdos die absolute ... rx: Amen. ps. Laudate dominum omnes. cu. Gloria Patri et Sicut erat// [dicitur communiter Kyieleison. Christeleison. Kyrieleison...]

Single leaf; Parchment: 275 x 200 (170 x 130) mm

Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines

Decoration, recto: 1 two-line initial with vertical bar extension terminating in floral and foliate forms, 1 vertical border of foliate forms in inner margin; verso: 1 two-line initial with vertical bar extension terminating in floral and foliate forms, 1 vertical border embellished with floral and foliate forms 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; John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (1837 – 1912), former owner; Private Collection, California, MS 226

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