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MS. Lat. liturg. d. 6

Summary Catalogue no.: 32557

Contents

Usuard, Martyrology
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good historiated and other initials. (P&A ii. 15, pl. II)

  • fol. 27v, initial K: foliage, interlace, profile head.
  • fol. 33v, initial K: foliage, interlace, two tonsured heads.
  • fol. 45r, initial K: foliage, interlace, bust of a man wearing hood.
  • fol. 48r, initial D: foliage, interlace, human and animal heads
  • fol. 52r, initial K: foliage, interlace, two lions' heads.

History

Origin: 11th century, second half ; Italian, Rieti

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1924). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 6, p. 167
Summary Catalogue, vol. 6, p. 168

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.