Feast of the Holy Innocents (Dec 28), Matins, Lesson 4-9, Lauds

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Saint Louis University, VFL MS 002, fol. b

St. Louis, MO

Feast of the Holy Innocents (Dec 28), Matins, Lesson 4-9, Lauds

Incipit, recto: [Et ideo dignum...fuit causa]//p[o]ene, qui extitit et corone, ip[s]e odii c[aus]a qui p[rae]mii...
Explicit, verso: Cum rel[iquis] a[n]t[iphona]. A bymatu et infra occidit multos pueros hero//[des propter dominum...]

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

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

Decoration, recto: 4 two-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 2 two line initials, 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; Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962.

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.