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Breviarium OFM

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This is a breviary, a late medieval manuscript of daily prayers and psalms written by hand on vellum for Franciscan friars, held by the e-codices virtual manuscript library of Switzerland. Its pages carry densely written Latin columns with red and blue penwork initials, and one page shows a small figure in the lower margin. The second page shows an illuminated historiated initial and a scene of two haloed figures in a green landscape with a town on a hill, a useful reference for flat, decorative medieval colour and the way text blocks and ornament share a page.

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