Feast of the Discovery of the Holy Cross (May 3), Terce-2nd Vespers; Feast of Sts. Alexander, Eventius, Theodolius, and Juvenal (May 3); Feast of St. John Before the Latin Gate (May 6), 1st Vespers-Matins

BB_Llang_0038

Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, Comites Latentes, CL 261, fol. a

Basel, CH

Feast of the Discovery of the Holy Cross (May 3), Terce-2nd Vespers; Feast of Sts. Alexander, Eventius, Theodolius, and Juvenal (May 3); Feast of St. John Before the Latin Gate (May 6), 1st Vespers-Matins

Incipit, recto: [Helena sancta dixit ad iudam...ubi absconditum est preciosum]// lignum dominicum alleluia. Oratio. Deus qui in preclara... Explicit, verso: Et aliam ... quia cum legisset Matthei, Marci, et Lucae volumina probaverit// [quidem textum historiae et vera eos...][conjoint with and consecutive before BB_Llang_0040]

Single leaf (one of a bifolium); parchment; 275 x 200 (170 x 130) mm

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

Decoration, recto: 4 two-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: one eight-line inhabited initial with St. John the Evangelist, center bar extension terminating in floral and foliate forms, vertcal 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; Alan G. Thomas (1911-1992), bookseller; Sotheby's, 21 June 1993, Lot 32.

Text: Sanctorale

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