Feast for the Common of One Martyr, Matins, Lesson 1-6

BB_Llang_0059

Private Collection UK#2, UKSC MS fol. b

United Kingdom

Private Collection

Feast for the Common of One Martyr, Matins, Lesson 1-6

Incipit, recto: [...idola persequebantur Christianos]// p[ro]pt[er] Christum idola delere[n]t et s[u]bjugaret[ur]...
Explicit, verso: ...no[n] e[st] mortua mors nisi in vita. R[esponsus]. Stolam io//[cunditatis induit eum dominus et coronam...]

Catchword on verso: [io]cu[n]ditati[s]

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

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

Decoration, recto: 2 two-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 3 two-line initials, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms, border in outer margin inhabited by a cherub.

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; Bonhams, Sale 21029, 11 December 2013, Lot 1376.

Text: Common of Saints

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.