Beschreibung:

Breviary, Use of Rome, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Lombardy (most probably Brescia), second half of the fifteenth century] 403 leaves, 110mm. by 85mm., complete, collation: i6, ii-xli10, xlii7 (last leaf a singleton), double column, 30 lines in a tiny gothic bookhand, occasional cadels to penwork (that on fol.85r enclosing a smiling human face), one- to 3-line initials in red or blue with penwork to contrast, larger initials in same with floral infill and penwork extensions the height of the border terminating in fleshy petalled flowerbuds, spaces left for some initials, some small spots and scuffs, slight cockling to last few gatherings, else good condition, marbled endleaves, nineteenth-century vellum over pasteboards