Item Info

Language: Latin
Folio Number: 11b front
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Initial L with the Prophet Isaiah
Notes: Lewis E M 72:11b contains the initials ?B.F.," inscribed on the book held by Isaiah.
Notes: This initial begins the Introit for the second Mass at Christmas, "Lux fulgebit hodie ?" (The light shone today). The cutting and its sister cutting Lewis E M 72:11a are known to have come from the choir books of the Olivetan monastery of Santi Angelo e Nicolò in Villanova Sillaro near Lodi. These two cuttings and one other in the Free Library's collections (Lewis E M 28:19) were illuminated by the so-called Master B. F., after the initials inscribed in another cutting by the same artist now in the Museo Diocesano in Lodi, Italy. Some scholars have argued that the initials stand for Francesco Binasco (also known as Francesco da Lonate), an illuminator who worked at the court of the Sforza, the ruling family of Milan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1627406
Country: Country:Italy
City/Town/Township:Milan

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1515
Image Dimensions Width: 166 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 72:11B
Creator Name: Master B.F. (Francesco Binasco?) - Artist