Accession number
MS M.560
Object title
Breviary leaf (MS M.560).
Display Date
late 12th or early 13th cent.
Created
Southern Italy, late 12th or early 13th cent.
Credit line
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.
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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