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Breviary – Fragment

Parchment · 10 leaves · 1441 – 1448 CE · Italy

F-g5k0

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 301
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Breviary (Fragment), Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 301 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-g5k0)
Century
15th century
Text Language
Latin
Script Type
Southern Textualis
Liturgica
Breviary
Persons
Giorgio d'Alemagna (circle) (Illuminator)
Leonello Ferrara (Patron)
Places
Italy
Summary

A fragment of 10 leaves in a quire consisting of the beginning of the Proprium de sanctis. The last rubric (f. 10r) is for St. Lucy. Written in a gothic rotunda book hand in brownish ink in two columns. There are 7 historiated initials, 1 foliate border (f. 1v) with 5 portraits (a sixth one is cut out), and illuminated initials and foliate borders throughout. Probably illuminated for Leonello d'Este, Duke of Ferrara 1441-50, by Giorgio d'Alemagna and others.

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↗ HOLLIS Catalog
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