Quadragesima (Lent), Week 3, Feria 3 (Matins, Lessons 2-3), Feria 4 (Lessons 1-3), Feria 5 (Lesson 1)

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CAM1994.007

Niagara University, NY

Quadragesima (Lent), Week 3, Feria 3 (Matins, Lessons 2-3), Feria 4 (Lessons 1-3), Feria 5 (Lesson 1)

Incipit, recto: [... ergo propter illum fac, ut lucreris] illum. Sic faciendo lucraris, nisi fecisses perierat.
Explicit, verso: ... in fide plebis corda de mulcet. Lectio ii. [Utrumque enum sexum dominus curaturus ad venerat...]

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

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

Decoration, recto: 7 two-line initials, 2 vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 5 two-line initials, 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.

Breviary of Ercole d'EsteBreviary of Ercole d"Este

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.