Accession number:
MS M.560
Title:
Breviary leaf
Created:
Southern Italy, late 12th or early 13th cent.
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1917.
Description:
1 leaf (1 column, 34 lines), matted : vellum ; 250 x 210 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Giuseppe Martini in 1917.
Notes:
Ms. breviary single leaf; written and decorated in a Beneventan scriptorium in southern Italy in the late 12th or early 13th centuries.
Text: lectio VIII through oratio "pis omnibus defunctis".
Decoration: initials brushed with yellows and streaked with red.
Script:
Beneventan script
Language:
Latin
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