Written in a gothic rotunda book hand in long lines with occasional music in square notation; 58.6 x 40.6 cm.; text 37.5 x 27 cm. Written and illuminated in Italy, possibly Cremona, in the scriptorium of the brothers Gadio and painted by Baldassare Coldiradi and assistants for a Franciscan (Observant) monastery. Begins and ends imperfectly; psalter with versicles, responses and hymns (not noted), containing offices for matins and lauds on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and proper hymns. 12 historiated initials on gold ground, 2 large and numerous decorated initials on gold ground, colored initials in blue and red with penwork flourishes, and 1 foliate border with a historiated medallion : David in prayer (p. 2); a Franciscan monk (p. 10); St. Antony of Padua with a book and a lily (p. 33); St. Francis (pp. 58, 119, medallion); a king in profile (p. 1050; possibly St... In a case, 59 cm. From the library of Charles Eliot Norton. Purchase, 1906.
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