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

MS 5650/57

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

c.1530

Text: From a Book of Hours, in Latin

Script: Humanist

The text shows John 19:20 to 19:31. It is written in a single column of twenty-one lines of text in a very fine, small, brown upright humanistic hand. The text is within a knotted ropework border in shell gold and brown with convoluted tassels at the bottom, supporting green jewels set in gold. From the same manuscript as MS 5650/53.

Recto side:

1 ubi crucifixus est Iesus . Et er-

2 at scriptum hebraice : grece : et la-

3 tine . [19:21] Dicebant ergo pylato pon-

4 tifices iudeorum : Noli scribere

5 rex iudeorum : sed quia ipse dixit

6 rex sum iudeorum . [19:22] Respondit py-

7 latus . Quod scripsi scripsi . [19:23] Mili-

8 tes ergo cum crucifixissent eum

9 acceperunt vestimenta eius (et) fe-

10 cerunt quatuor partes : unicuiq(ue)

11 militi partem (et) tunicam . Erat

12 autem tunica inconsutilis desup(er)

13 contexta per totum . [19:24] Dixerunt er-

14 go ad invicem . Non scindamus e-

15 am : sed sortiamur de illa cuius sit

16 ut scriptura impleretur dicens . Par-

17 titi sunt vestimenta mea sibi : et in

18 vestem meam miserunt sorte(m) . Et

19 milites quidem hec fecerunt . [19:25] Sta-

20 bant autem iuxta crucem Iesu ma-

21 ter eius : (et) soror matris eius Ma-

Verso side:

1 ria cleophe (et) Maria magdale-

2 ne . [19:26] Cum vidissent ergo Iesus [line filler]

3 matrem (et) discipulum stante(m)

4 (quem diligebat) dixit matri [line filler] [see Note F

5 sue . Mulier : ecce filius tuus . [19:27] De-

6 inde dixit discipulo : ecce mater [line filler]

7 tua . Et ex illa hora : accepit ea(m)

8 discipulus in suam . [19:28] Postea scie(n)s

9 Iesus quia iam omnia consum-

10 mata sunt : ut consummaretur [line filler]

11 scriptura dixit . Sitio . [19:29] Vas ergo

12 positum erat aceto plenum . Illi

13 autem spongiam plenam aceto

14 ysopo circumponentes obtule-

15 runt ori eius . [19:30] Cum ergo accepis-

16 set . Iesus acetum dixit . Consum-

17 matum est . Et inclinato capite

18 tradidit spiritum  [19:31] Iudei ergo [ - Jesus dies

19 quoniam parasceve erat ut non

20 remanerent in cruce corpora sab-

21 bato erat enim magnus dies ille

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,C,D,E,I,M,N,P,Q,R,S,V.

B Use of alternative forms of ‘s’(2), ‘u’(2) and ‘v’(2).

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

D Ligature between letters ‘ss’, e.g. in ‘crucifixissent’ (recto, line 8).

E Use of ampersand form ‘et’, e.g. in verso side, line 1.

F In verso side, line 4, the round brackets are written in the text.

G Use of a brief line filler of a crossed letter ‘i’ (e.g. verso, line 2).

H Abbreviation of ‘unicuique’ (recto, line 10).

I Abbreviation of ‘per’ in ‘desuper’ (recto, line 12).

MS 5650/53

MS 57

Latin

1 leaf

Material: Vellum leaf