Part 1: ff. 1-424

Description: - Parchment - 150 x 116 mm - 2 columns, 33 lines, ruled in lead for horizontal lines and in dry point (?) for vertical bounding lines.

Country: Italy

Cardinal point: central (?)

Region: Tuscany (?)

City: Florence (?)

Assigned Date: s. XIV1

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: Several (?); scribe 1, ff. 211-264v; possibly several for remaining folios.

Script: Gothic.

Figurative Decoration: 1 12-line historiated initial on square gold ground.

Other Decoration: 13 6-line initials on square gold grounds with broad, leafy extensions to one third the length of text; 1 6-line pen-flourished initial; 2-line initials in alternating red and blue with harping and beading of other color.

Notes: Contemporary foliation in red roman numerals upper center margin through f. 44.




Text 1: ff. 1-423v

Title: Breviary

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Prayers added in later hands, ff. 423v-424. 

Image 1: f. 5v October

Image 2: ff. 7v-8 Rubrics (liturgical directions).

Image 3: f. 13 Painted initial; added coat of arms, cropped.

Image 4: f. 85 Black ink flaking on flesh side.

Image 5: f. 211v Historiated initial, God and King David.

Image 6: f. 241v Painted initial.

Image 7: f. 246v Painted initial.

Image 8: f. 265v Flourished initial.

Image 9: f. 374v Decorated catchword.