Manuscript leaf from a Breviary, in Latin, produced in Italy (probably Naples)

Text: From a Breviary, in Latin

Script: Textualis Formata (Textus Semiquadratus)

There are thirteen lines of text, in two sizes, written in a handsome rounded gothic script. Line marking is in brown. There is a large initial ‘D’ in burnished and tooled gold, infilled with thick white vine-leaf style decoration on a pink and blue ground, with further decoration in similar vine-leaf decoration extending into the lower margin. A very handsome leaf from a late fifteenth-century Italian manuscript, probably a Psalter or a Breviary; the fine illuminated initial introduces Vespers from the Hours of the Virgin. Also part of Psalm 109 is shown.

Note from Donor, "Maggs had incorrectly described this leaf as coming from a thirteenth-century Flemish manuscript."