Description
Consecutive leaves from a dispersed manuscript.
Leaves correspond to folios 170 and 171 in the original manuscript.
Leaf dimensions: 10.2 cm. high x 7.3 cm. wide.
Text dimensions: 5.4 cm. high x 3.4 cm. wide.
Manuscript written on very fine vellum.
Each page contains twelve lines of text.
Latin text written in a rounded gothic liturgical hand
in dark brown ink.
Rubrics in red.
One- and two-line initials throughout the text written in
alternating blue and raised burnished gold.
Initials are highlighted with red or purple penwork.
Penwork of the larger initials extends into the page margins.
These leaves are from the Office of the Dead, Martins, First Nocturne.
Folio 170
Text is from the second half of Psalm 5
Bottom of verso has a horizontal catchword (Math.).
Folio 171
Text is from the beginning of Psalm 6
Notes/Comments
The original manuscript consisted of approximately 232 leaves.
The style of the manuscript decoration is typical of Italian workmanship
from the Tuscan region.
The inclusion of St. Bernardinus in the Litany dates the book after 1450.
The illuminated initials are typical of the work of Quirico de Prato.
* Small dolphin decorations (Folio 213r of the original manuscript) suggest
the manuscript was made for a member of the Florentine family of Pazzi.
