Manuscript leaf from a Missal, in Latin, produced in Southern Germany (perhaps Augsburg)

MS 5650/105

Manuscript leaf from a Missal, in Latin, produced in Southern Germany (perhaps Augsburg)

c.1490

Text: From a Missal, in Latin

Script: Textualis Formata (Textus Quadratus)

The text is taken from part of the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin.

The writing is in a double column of twenty-five lines, in two sizes of a large bold Textualis Formata (Textus Quadratus) script. Line pricking is on all four sides. Lines are in black ink(?). The top edge of the leaf has been gilded.

There is a seven-line painted initial ‘V’ in pink and with contrasting colour pattern on a brilliant burnished and tooled gold ground, the whole within a rectangular frame of blue and green black. One-line and two-line initials are painted in blue or red. Rubrics and foliation are in red. Capitals are struck with red. The leaf also has flamboyant swirling marginal decoration comprising acanthus leaves, other vegetation, and gold bezants with a page-length bar in the form of a slender branch with truncated twigs emanating from the marginal decoration at the bottom and terminating at the top in a flower. These are painted in blue, dark green, yellow, ochre, brown, light brown, reddish brown, black, white and gold.

On the recto side is the heading ‘Cxxvi’ in red - presumably meaning ‘126’.

A leaf with a similar style of decoration and a similarly painted initial letter appears in Bernard Quaritch’s Catalogue 1315, Item 78.

Transcription

Recto side, column 1:

1 B(ea)ta viscera clxxvii (com)pl(i)n(e)

2 S upplices te rogam(us)

3 om(ni)p(oten)s deus ut glo(rio)sissi-

4 me virg(in)is marie ge-

5 nitricis filii tui dom(in)i

6 n(ost)ri ih(es)u (christ)i sacra mis-

7 teria et mira b(e)n(e)ficia

8 eius int(er)veniente in( )ito

9 et p(re)sidio ab hostibus

10 liberi et celestib(us) apti es-

11 se valeamus P(er) eunde(m) .

12 ypoliti et socioru(m) eius

13 Iusti epulentur . Collec(ta) .

14 D Eus qui hodier-

15 na(m) diem s(an)ctoru(m)

16 n(os)tr(u)m tuor(um) ypoliti et

17 sacre eius familie mar-

18 tino consecrasti da no-

19 bis salute(m) mentis et

20 corp(er)is ut illor(um) passio-

21 ni sit veneratio ex n(ost)ra

22 devocione et nobis au-

23 xiliu(m) p(ro)veniat de eoru(m)

24 s(an)ctissima int(er)cessione .

25 P(er) ep(istu)la Rememoranu(m) .

Recto side, column 2:

1 g( )r(um) Iustoru(m) a(n)i(ma)e All(elui)a . Leta-

2 m(in)i in d(omi)no seque(m) Agone .

3 erom( ) Attendite a fer .

4 Off(icium) A(n)i(m)a n(ost)ra sec(reta) R espi-

5 ce d(omi)ne ( )ia p(o)p(u)li tui

6 s(an)ctor(um) festivitate voti- [‘festinitate’ ?

7 va : et tue testificatio

8 veritatis nobis p(ro)fici-

9 at ad salute(m) Per . Con

10 Dico aut(em) vobis Compl(i)n(e)

11 S ac(ra)mentor(um) tuor(um) do-

12 mine conntino sump-

13 ta nos salvet : et i(n) tue

14 veritatis luce confir-

15 met P(er) . In festo assu(m)p-

16 tionis marie virg(in)is

17 V U-

18 L-

19 T-

20 U-

21 M

22 T-

23 U-

24 um dep(ro)cabuntur om(ni)s di-

25 vites plebis adducentur

Verso side, column 1:

1 regi virgines post ea(m) p(ro)xi-

2 me eius adducentur tibi

3 in leticia et exultat(i)o(n)e p(salmu)s

4 Eructavit cor meu(m) verbu(m)

5 bonu(m) dico ego op(er)a mea

6 V ene- Collec(ta) regi .

7 randa qu(esumu)s d(omi)ne

8 huius diei sollempni-

9 tas opem nobis con-

10 ferat salutare(m) in qua

11 s(an)cta dei genitrix virgo

12 maria morte(m) subiit

13 t(em)p(or)alem nec tamen

14 mortis nexibus dep(re)-

15 mi potuit que filiu(m)

16 tuu(m) d(omi)n(u)m n(ost)r(u)m ih(esu)m

17 (christu)m de se genuit in

18 carnatu(m) cuius pia i(n)

19 tercessione q(uesumu)s ut mor-

20 tem evad(er)e possimus

21 a(n)i(m)ar(um) P(er) eu(ndem) . vel illa .

22 F amuloru(m) tuoru(m)

23 qu(esumu)s d(omi)ne delictis

24 ignosce ut qui tibi pla-

25 cere de actibus n(ost)ris

Verso side, column 2:

1 no(n) valemus genitri-

2 cis filii tui d(omi)ni dei n(ost)ri

3 int(er)cessione salvem(ur)

4 P(er) eunde(m) . que dicitur

5 p(er) octa(va)s . l(e)ct(i)o li sapi(enti)e .

6 I N om(n)ibus requiem

7 quesivi : et i(n) heredita-

8 te d(omi)ni morabor . Tu(n)c

9 p(re)cepit et dixit michi

10 creator o(m)i(u)m : et q(uia) crea-

11 vit me requievit in

12 tabernaculo meo et

13 dixit michi . In iacob

14 i(n) habita et in isr(ae)l he-

15 reditare . et in electis

16 meis mitte radices .

17 Et sic in syon firmata

18 su(m) et in civitate s(an)ctifi-

19 cata si(mi)l(ite)r requievi et

20 in ihr(usa)l(e)m potestas mea .

21 Et radicavi in p(o)p(u)lo ho-

22 norificato : et in parte

23 dei mei hereditas illi(us)

24 et in plenitudi(n)e s(an)ctor(um)

25 detencio mea . Quasi

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.

Capitals: A,B,C,D,E,I,L,N,P,Q,R,T.

B Versals: D,F,I,L,M,R,S,T,U/V.

C Alternative forms of letters ‘i’(2), ‘r’(2) and ‘s’(2).

D The ascender of ‘d’ sometimes has a slight upward curl which is

typically German.

E Round ‘r’ is used after ‘o’, but the upright ‘r’ forms part of the ‘rum’ ending.

F Fusion between letters ‘da’, ‘do’, ‘de’, ‘oc’, ‘od’, ‘oe’, ‘oq’, ‘pa’, ‘pe’

and ‘pp’.

G Elision between letters ‘ci’, ‘cu’, ‘fi’, ‘gi’, ‘ri’, ‘ti’ and ‘tu’.

H Bifurcation of the ascenders of letters ‘b’, ‘h’ and ‘l’.

I Hairline ending on the abbreviation of ‘ur’ in ‘salvemur’ on the verso side,

column 2, line 3, and sometimes on a final ‘t’.

J Sometimes the diacritic on ‘i’ is rounded.

K There is no dot on ‘y’.

L Ligature of ‘ct’, e.g. in ‘actibus’ (verso 1, line 25).

M Ligature of ‘st’, e.g. in ‘festo’ (recto 2, line 15).

N The abbreviation for the ‘us’ ending is typically German, as in ‘celestibus’

(recto 1, line 10).

O The abbreviation of the ‘rum’ ending is typically German, as in ‘illorum’

(recto 1, line 20).

P Abbreviation of ‘compline’ (recto 1, line 1).

Q Abbreviation of ‘omnipotens’ (recto 1, line 3).

R Abbreviation of ‘nostri’ (recto 1, line 6).

S Abbreviation of ‘christi’ (recto 1, line 6).

T Abbreviation of ‘tuorum’ (recto 1, line 16).

U Abbreviation of ‘Alleluia’ (recto 2, line 1).

V Abbreviation of ‘domino’ (recto 2, line 2).

W Abbreviation of ‘Anima’ (recto 2, line 4).

X Abbreviation of ‘autem’ (recto 2, line 10).

Y Abbreviation of ‘sanctorum’ (recto 1, line 15).

Z Abbreviation of ‘epistula’ (recto 1, line 25).

AA Abbreviation of ‘quesumus’ (verso 1, line 19).

AB Abbreviation of ‘quia’ (verso 2, line 10).

AC Abbreviation of ‘populo’ (verso 2, line 21).

AD With the versal letters of ‘VULTUM TUum’ the scribe has written tiny

guide letters for the illuminator.

MS 105

Latin

1 leaf

Material: Vellum leaf