Breviary – Fragment
Parchment · 1 leaf · 1421 – 1450 CE · Germany · 470 x 320 mmF-mn6p
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Lat 434
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Written ca. 1435 in Germany, probably Saxony, in two ruled columns of 41 lines each, written in brown ink with rubrics and red and blue initials; with historiated initial 'A' in blue, green, red, white, black, grey and gold containing an image of the prophet Isaiah and another man with images of Gabriel and Mary on upright sides of the A; also has a floriated boarder with various figures including a collared monkey, a pope, birds, and a wild man.
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