Week after 4th Sunday September (Judith)-5th Sunday September (Esther), Lessons 1-2

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Les Enluminures, inv. #131 (2015)

New York, NY

Week after 4th Sunday September (Judith)-5th Sunday September (Esther), Lessons 1-2

Incipit, recto: [...virtus eorum in iracundia tua. Et dextera.]//Conforta me rex s[an]ctor[um] principatum tenens...
Explicit, verso: ...cum[que] implerentur dies convivii invitavit omne[m]//[populum qui inventus est...]

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

Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines. Decoration, recto: 1 five-line inhabited initial with a bearded prophet, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 1 five-line inhabited initial with a portrait of Esther (?), 1 two-line initial, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms.

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