Readings from the Book of Kings from after the the Octave of Pentecost to the Kalends of August, Matins, Lessons 3-9

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Readings from the Book of Kings from after the the Octave of Pentecost to the Kalends of August, Matins, Lessons 3-9

Incipit, recto: [I Kings 1:12] [Domino omnibus diebus vitae eius et]// novacula non ascendet super caput eius.
Explicit, verso: [... extra exiit os a cibo eterne dulcedinis// [clausit. Unde nos quoque nati in huius...]

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

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

Decoration, recto: 4 two-line initials, 2 vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 3 two-line insitials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms, one 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.

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.