Item Info

Script: Rotunda
Language: Latin
Folio Number: front 74:2
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Initial D with David kneeling before Christ
Notes: This initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins for the first Sunday after Epiphany, "Domine ne in ira tua arguas me ..." (O Lord reprove me not in your anger).

This cutting and Lewis E M 74:3 are part of a group of fragments, now dispersed among various collections, from two antiphonaries of a single commission. The Master of the San Giovanni Fuorcivitas is so named for an antiphonary he illuminated for the Church of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas in Pistoia.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1654623
Country: Country:Italy
Region/County:Tuscany

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1350
Image Dimensions Width: 566 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 74:2-3
Creator Name: Master of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas - Artist