BURLAMACCHI, Eufrasia
(b. ca. 1482, Lucca, d. 1548, Lucca)

Temporal Gradual (detail)

1720-40
Illumination on parchment, 593 x 432 mm (entire folio)
Biblioteca Statale, Lucca

The manuscript (codex MS 2649) entitled Liber Missarum de Tempore ab Adventu usque ad Cenam Domini together with another manuscript (codex MS 2650), entitled Liber Missarum de Tempore a Cena Domini usque ad Adventum, forms a Temporal Gradual 'per totum annum,' a single Gradual (an antiphon sung between the Epistle and the Gospel at the Eucharist) from the temporal lithurgical cycle.

The two volumes can be assigned to Eufrasia who worked together with another person doing the writing and annotation. The manuscripts were created for the Dominican community of the convent of San Romano. They were clearly influenced by the style of Fra Bartolomeo, who in 1509 and 1515 visited the convent of San Romano and painted altarpieces for the Dominicans.

This initial is from Liber Missarum de Tempore ab Adventu usque ad Cenam Domini (codex MS 2649).