Breviary (France, mid-14th century)

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Mid-14th century

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Leaf from a breviary: explicit of Lectio I, Feria V of Sexagesima week (...eius nomine filii sui), through responsory of Lectio II of Quinquagesima Sunday (Aedificavit noe altare...et multiplicamini et replete...) (CAO 6055).

Single parchment folio with two columns of 31 lines each both recto and verso. Written in dark brown ink with rubrics and capital letters slashed in red. Illegible running head in center of top margin on recto ("Fo"? "85"?). 10 decorated 2-line initials in red and blue with contrasting flowing pen flourishing (chiefly frogspawn and confetti tendrils). Verso also contains 4 undecorated 1-line initials. Capital C at the beginning of column 2 on the verso extends up into the margin and features a small grotesque of a face with a tiny body. Also on the verso, a red manicule in the left margin indicates the insertion of a phrase boxed in red in the bottom margin (et vixit Caynan postquam genuit Malalehel: Gen. 5:13). Several other minor marginal corrections.

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