Feast of St. Lucy (Dec. 13), 1st Vespers-Matins, Lessons 1-6

BB_Llang_0035

Harvard University, MS Typ 0301, fol. j

Cambridge, MA

Feast of St. Lucy (Dec. 13), 1st Vespers-Matins, Lessons 1-6

Incipit, recto: [...apostolorum iacuerunt i[d est] petri et pauli]//quam versibus adornavit hic multa corpora...[Consecutive after BB_Llang_0034]
Explicit, verso: Lucia dixit. Audi mater consilium meum. Non satis deo carus//[est qui illi hoc dat...]

Catchword on verso: e[st]

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 five-line inhabited initial with St. Lucy, 1 three-line initial, 1 two-line initial, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 4 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.