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Breviary leaf

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
Resources: 
Description/Bibliography
Century: 
12th century
13th century
Genres: 
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Vellum (parchment)
Beneventan minuscule
Single leaves
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Manuscript
Department: 
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts