Manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, produced in France (Paris)

Text: From a Book of Hours, in Latin

Script: Hybrida Formata (Bastarda)

There are twenty-three lines of gothic text. The border on each side of the leaf is composed of several different acanthus leaves in different colours and other coloured flowers and strawberries, rasberries and grapes, all on a liquid gold ground. A two-line initial with a flower in red, green and white on a gold ground and fourteen one-line initials in gold on a blue or red ground, with twelve line-fillers in similar colours. Rubrics are in red. The text contains parts of Psalms 40 and 41.

Recto side:

1 me cogitabant mala michi . [line filler]

2 [40:9] V erbum iniquu(m) constitueru(n)t

3 adversum me : nunquid qui dor-

4 mit non adiiciet ut resurgat . [line filler]

5 [40:10] E teni(m) homo pacis mee in quo

6 speravi qui edebat panes meos :

7 magnificavit super me supplan-

8 tationem . [line filler]

9 [40:11] T u autem domine miserere

10 mei et resuscita me : (et) retribua(m) eis

11 [40:12] I n hoc cognovi quonia(m) voluisti

12 me : quonia(m) no(n) gaudebit inimi-

13 cus meus super me . [line filler]

14 [40:13] M e autem propter innocentia(m)

15 suscepisti : et confirmasti me in

16 conspectu tuo in eternum . [line filler]

17 [40:14] B enedictus dominus deus israel

18 a seculo et in seculum fiat fiat . a(ntiphona)

19 Sana domine anima(m) quia pec-

20 cavi tibi . a(ntiphona) Situnt . p(salmu)s . [line filler]

21 Q [41:2] uemadmodum desiderat cer-

22 vus ad fontes aquarum : ita de-

23 siderat anima mea ad te deus .

Verso side:

1 [41:3] S itivit anima mea ad deum

2 fortem vivu(m) : quando veniam

3 et apparebo ante faciem dei . [line filler]

4 [41:4] F uerunt michi lachrime mee

5 panes die ac nocte : dum dicitur

6 michi quotidie ubi est de(us) tuus .

7 [41:5] H ec recordatus sum et effudi in

8 me anima(m) meam transibo in lo-

9 cum tabernaculi admirabilis

10 usq(ue) ad domum dei . [line filler]

11 I n voce exultationis et confes-

12 sionis : sonus epulantis . [line filler]

13 [41:6] Q uare tristis es anima mea :

14 et quare conturbas me . [line filler]

15 S pera in deo q(uonia)m adhuc confi-

16 tebor illi : salutare vultus mei

17 [41:7] et deus meus . [line filler]

18 A d me ip(su)m anima mea co(n)tur-

19 bata est : propterea memor ero

20 tui de terra iordanis et hermonii(m)

21 a monte modico . [line filler]

22 [41:8] A bissus abyssum invocat :

23 in voce catharactarum tua(rum) .

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,S,U.

Versals: A,B,E,F,H,I,M,Q,S,T,V.

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

C Fusion between letters ‘ba’, ‘be’, ‘bo’, ‘da’, ‘de’, ‘De’, ‘do’,

‘ha’, ‘he’, ‘ho’, ‘oc’, ‘od’, ‘og’, ‘pa’, ‘pe’, ‘ve’ and ‘vo’.

D Elision between letters ‘ci’, ‘fi’, ‘fu’, ‘ti’ and ‘tu’.

E Ligature between letters ‘st’.

F Use of a crossed Tironian ‘et’ (recto, line 10).

G Abbreviation of ‘us’ in ‘deus’ (verso, line 6).

H Abreviation of ‘usque’ (verso, line 10).

I Abreviation of ‘quoniam’ (verso, line 15).

J Abreviation of ‘tuarum’ (verso, line 23).