Item Info

Script: Rotunda
Language: Latin
Folio Number: opening
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: This bifolium from a choir book contains portions of the Gospel Lesson for Epiphany, beginning on the recto of the first folio with Luke 3:21, "Factum est aute[m] cum baptizaretur omnis populus ..." (Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized). The text of the lesson breaks between the two folios shown here indicating that at least one other bifolium came between the two leaves of this bifolium.
Notes: This leaf has been dated to ca. 1325. Notes to illuminator in right margin of fol. 1r, partially trimmed away: "Hic ... e[ss]e u[...] diaco[num?] le[gere?] eua[n]g[elium?].
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1602025
Country: Country:Italy
City/Town/Township:Bologna

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1350
Image Dimensions Width: 343 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 45:1