Feast of St. Andrew (Nov. 30), Matins, Lessons 2-6

BB_Llang_0027

Harvard University, MS Typ 0301, fol. b

Cambridge, MA

Feast of St. Andrew (Nov. 30), Matins, Lessons 2-6

Incipit, recto: [...animum revocares. Cui ]//[A]egeas dixit: Tu es Andreas, qui destruis te[m]pla deor[um]...[Consecutive after BB_Llang_0026]
Explicit, verso: ...Andreas r[espond]it. Hoc est quod me di//[xisse iam retines magnam...] [Consecutive before BB_Llang_0028]

Leaf in quire of ten; parchment; 275 x 200 (170 x 130) mm

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

Decoration, recto: 1 two-line initial, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 3 two-line initials; one vertical bar extension terminating in floral and foliate forms, vertical border of foliate forms in outer margin.

Giorgio d'Alemagna (active 1441-1479) and others (Matteo de' Pasti)

Ferrara, Italy

Latin

1441-1448

Leonello d'Este (1407-1450), Marchese of Ferrara, patron; John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (1837 – 1912), former owner; Gift from Philip Hofer, 1967.

Text: Sanctorale

Federica Toniolo, Il lungo viaggio del Breviario di Lionello d'Este tra le due sponde dell'Atlantico, in Medioevo: arte e storia, Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Parma, 18-22 settembre 2007, a cura di A. C. Quintavalle, Università di Parma e Mondatori Electa, Milano 2008 (I convegni di Parma, 10), 564-577.