
The Morgan's historiated initial of St. Francis is one of thirteen originally in the parent codex. A leaf with an initial of Sts. Peter and Paul is today in Washington, National Gallery of Art, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Carra Ferguson et al., Medieval & Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975, 84-87, no. 24).
Texts: Folio LXIIIr-v: end of the Feast of the Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel (September 29) and beginning of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (October 4) [The "Gaudeamus" Introit, not used in today's liturgy, can be found in such fifteenth-century Missals as Morgan's MS M.374, f. 144, and MS M.95, f. 236v]. Folio LXVIIIr-v: end of the Feast of St. Martin of Tours (November 11), Feast of St. Cecilia (November 22), Feast of St. Clement (November 23), and rubric for a Mass against Plague.
Scribe: Ludovico de Gacis.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial (Stigmatization of St. Francis) and 1 historiated border.
Artist: collaborator of Ludovico de Gacis (Thieme/Becker, XIII, 23; D'Ancona-Aeschlimann, Dictionnaire des miniaturistes, 1949, 81; Bollati, Dizionario, 2004, 248-51).