Manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, produced in Northern France

Text: From a Book of Hours, in Latin

Script: Textualis Formata (Textus Quadratus)

The text shows parts of Acts and Matthew. Line and column rulings are in red. There are seventeen lines of text in black ink with rubrics in red. There are three two-line versals, two of which have marginal extensions, in several colours on a burnished gold ground. Two of the initials are accompanied by a lovely and intricate border of flowers and ivy leaves in several colours and gold, attached to coloured stems. On the recto the stems are single black lines whereas on the verso the stems are double lines filled with blue or pink colour.

Recto side:

1 -gelus ad petru(m) circunda t(ibi) vesti [Acts 12:8

2 mentu(m) tuu(m) et sequere me . ps(almus)

3 B(enedictiones) . a(ntiphona) Misit d(omi)n(u)s ang(e)l(u)m suu(m)

4 et liberavit me de manu hero-

5 dis all(eluia) . ps(almus) Laud(es) . cap(itulum) Petru(s)

6 quidem . R(esponsorium) Annu(n)c( ) . o(mnipotens) . d(eus) . V(ersus) In

?

7 omne(s) t(ibi) a(ntiphona) . Quodcu(m)q(ue) ligav(er)is [Matthew 16:19

8 sup(er) terram erit ligatum et in

9 celis et q(uo)dcumq(ue) solv(er)is sup(er)

10 t(er)ra(m) erit solutu(m) et i(n) celis dicit do(minus)

11 symoni pet(ro) . p(salmus) B(enedictiones) . ad l(audes) . (tertiam) . v(esperas)

or(atio) .

12 D eus qui hodierna(m) die(m)

13 ap(osto)lor(um) tuor(um) pet(ri) (et) pau-

14 li martirio consecrasti : da

15 eccl(es)ie tue eor(um) in omnibus

16 sequi p(re)ceptum . per quos re-

17 ligionis sumpsit exordiu(m)

Verso side:

1 P(er) . hac die n(on) fit commemor(atio)

2 de s(an)c(t)o paulo nec de sancto ioh(ann)e(s)

3 nisi ad missam nec die cra-

4 stina . de s(an)c(t)o petro . sed de beato

5 iohanne fit com(memoratio) ad l(audes) missa(m)

6 vesp(er)as . ad . (primam) . a(ntiphona) . Petrus et ioh(anne)s .

7 ad . (tertiam) a(ntiphona) Argentum . c(a)p(itulum) Petrus

8 quidem . V(ersus) Constit(it) . or(ati)o D(ominu)s qui

9 hod(ie) . ad . (sextam) . a(ntiphona) . In no(m)i(n)e cap(itu)l(u)m .

10 A ngelus d(omi)ni astitit : et lu- [Acts 12:7

11 men refulsit in h(ab)itacu-

12 lo carceris . p(er)cussoq(ue) latere

13 petri excitavit eum dice(n)s

14 surge velociter et cecideru(n)t

15 cathene de manib(us) eius . or(ati)o

16 O m(ni)p(oten)s l . d(eus) : qui eccl(es)iam [dominus ?

17 tuam i(n) ap(osto)lica solidi

Notes:

A Letters: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u/v,x,y,A,B,C,D,I,L,M,P,Q,V.

Versals: A,D,O.

B Alternative forms of letters ‘a’(2), ‘r’(2) and ‘s’(2).

C Fusion between letters ‘be’, ‘de’, ‘ha’, ‘he’, ‘ho’, ‘oc’, ‘od’, ‘pa’, ‘pc’ and ‘pe’.

D Elision between letters ‘ci’, ‘cu’, ‘ti’ and ‘ru’, and possibly others.

E Ligature between letters ‘ct’, e.g. in ‘sancto’ (verso, line 2).

F Ligature between letters ‘st’, e.g. in ‘vesti’ (recto, line 1).

G Hairlines in ‘h’, ‘i’, round ‘r’, final ‘t’, ‘x’, ‘rum’ abbreviation, Tironian ‘et’

and ‘que’ abbreviation.

H Bifurcation on ascenders of ‘b’, ‘l’, and ‘h’, and descenders of ‘p’ and ‘q’.

I Use is made of the Tironian ‘et’ (recto, line 13).

J Abbreviation for ‘rum’, e.g. in ‘tuorum’ (recto, line 13).

K Abbreviation for ‘us’ in ‘manibus’ (verso, line 15).

L Abbreviation for ‘que’, e.g. in ‘quidcumque’ (recto, line 9).