Binding: Not bound. Other decoration, One leaf: One 3-line red initial. Eight 2-line initials alternating red and blue. Small guide letters for red/blue initials. Number of scribes, One leaf: 1. Script, One leaf: Informal textura. Layout, One leaf: Text block 100 x 142 mm. 2 columns. Ink ruled.
Former Owner(s):
Unknown. Gift of Lewis Gould to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 2012 in his wife's memory.
One leaf: Texts for feasts of August 29, 30, September 8 from a 15th century breviary: In Decollatione S. Ioannis Bapt., Vigils, 3rd nocturne, Homily of Saint Augustine; commemoration of Saint Sabina; commemoration and lessons of Saint Felix and Audactus, Vigils; Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, lesson. (ca. 1458, teste manuscript dealer). Incipit, One leaf: matutinum: Invitatorium. Nativitatem virginis. Explicit, One leaf: in disco seralis mussus crude-.
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