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

MS 5650/62

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

c.1420 - 1430

Text: From a Book of Hours, in Latin

Script: Textualis Formata (Textus Quadratus)

The original description for the manuscript is as follows: The text is from the Penitential Psalms and Litany including St Denis and St Geneviève. The gathering lacks the central bifolium. Each folio has fifteen lines of text written in dark brown ink and ruled in brown ink.

There are one hundred and ten one-line and one two-line versals in burnished gold on pink and blue grounds with white-line tracery. Eighty line-fillers are in similar colours and four are ‘spiders’. In the outer margin of every page there are borders with pink, green, blue and yellow acanthus scrolls, small flowers and burnished gold leaves on hair-line black stems.

We hold 4 folios.

Folio 1

Recto side:

1 -cut cremium aruerunt

2 P ercussus sum ut fenum et [Psalm 104:5

3 aruit cor meum : quia oblitus

4 sum comedere panem meum .

5 A voce gemitus mei : adhesit

6 os meum carni mee . [line filler]

7 S imilis factus sum pellica-

8 no solitudinis : factus sum si-

9 cut niticorax in domicilio .

10 V igilavi et factus sum si-

11 cut passer solitarius in tecto .

12 T ota die exprobrabant michi

13 inimici mei : et qui laudabant

14 me adversum me iurabant .

15 Q uia cinerem tanq(ua)m panem

Folio 1

Verso side:

1 nem manducabam : et potum

2 meum cum fletu miscebam .

3 A facie ire indignacionis

4 tue : quia elevans allixisti me .

5 D ies mei sicut umbra declina-

6 verunt et ego sicut fenum arui .

7 T u autem domine in eternu(m)

8 permanes et memoriale tuum

9 in generacione et generacione(m) .

10 T u exurgens domine misere-

11 beris syon quia tempus mise-

12 rendi eius quia venit tempus .

13 Q uoniam placuerunt ser-

14 vis tuis lapides eius : et terre

15 eius miserebuntur . [line filler]

Folio 2

Recto side:

1 E t timebunt gentes nomen

2 tuum domine : et omnes reges

3 terre gloriam tuam . [line filler]

4 Q uia edificavit dominus sy-

5 on et iudebitur in gloria sua .

6 R espexit in oracionem humi-

7 lium et non sprevit precem eo(rum) .

8 S cribantur hec in generacio-

9 ne altera et populus qui creabi-

10 tur laudabit dominum . [line filler]

11 Q uia prospexit de excelso san-

12 cto suo : dominus de celo in ter-

13 ram aspexit . [line filler]

14 U t audiret gemitus com-

15 peditorum : ut solveret filios

Folio 2

Verso side:

1 interemptorum . [line filler]

2 U t annuncient in syon no-

3 men domini : et laudem eius

4 in iherusalem . [line filler]

5 I n conveniendo populos in

6 unum : et reges ut serviant do-

7 mino . [line filler]

8 R espondit ei in via virtu-

9 tis sue : paucitatem dierum

10 meorum nuncia michi .

11 N e revoces me in dimidio

12 dierum meorum in generacio-

13 ne et generacione(m) anni tui .

14 I nicio tu domine terram

15 fundasti : et opera manuum

Folio 5

Recto side:

1 S ancte symon [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

2 S ancte iuda [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

3 S ancte iacobe [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

4 S ancte mathia [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

5 S ancte barnaba [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

6 S ancte luca [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

7 S ancte mathee [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

8 S ancte marie [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

9 O mnes sancti apostoli et

10 evangeliste dei [line filler] o(rate pro nobis)

11 O mnes sancti discipuli d(omi)ni

12 orate pro nobis . [line filler]

13 O mnes sancti innocentes dei

14 orate pro nobis . [line filler]

15 S ancte stephane [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

Folio 5

Verso side:

1 S ancte line [line filler] o(ra pro nobis) [See below *

2 S ancte clete [line filler] o(ra pro nobis) [See below +

3 S ancte clemens [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

4 S ancte laurenti [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

5 S ancte vincenti [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

6 S ancte gervasi [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

7 S ancte prothasi [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

8 S ancte maurici [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

9 S ancte dyonisi cum sociis

10 tuis . [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

11 S ancte xpistofore [line filler] o(ra pro nobis) [christofore

12 S ancte hylari [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

13 O mnes s(an)c(t)i martires dei o(rate pro nobis)

14 S ancte silvester [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

15 S ancte martine [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

* St Linus (d.80 A.D.) was Bishop of Rome after St Peter.

+ St Cletus was Bishop of Rome after St Peter and St Linus.

Folio 6

Recto side:

1 S ancte augustine [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

2 S ancte nicholae [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

3 S ancte germane [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

4 S ancte gregori [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

5 S ancte ambrosi [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

6 S ancte ieronime [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

7 S ancte ludovice [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

8 S ancte yvo [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

9 O m(ne)s s(an)c(t)i confessores dei [line filler] o(rate pro nobis)

10 S ancta maria magdalena o(ra pro nobis)

11 S ancta maria egipciaca o(ra pro nobis)

12 S ancta felicitas [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

13 S ancta perpetua [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

14 S ancta agatha [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

15 S ancta lucia [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

Folio 6

Verso side:

1 S ancta agnes [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

2 S ancta cecilia [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

3 S ancta katherina [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

4 S ancta margareta [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

5 S ancta genovefa o(ra pro nobis)

6 S ancta fides [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

7 S ancta spes [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

8 S ancta karitas [line filler] o(ra pro nobis)

9 O mnes s(an)c(t)e v(ir)gines dei o(rate pro nobis) .

10 O mnes sancti et s(an)c(t)e dei o(rate pro nobis) .

11 P ropicius esto parce nobis

12 domine [line filler]

13 A b omni malo [line filler] l(ibera nos domine)

14 A b insidiis dyaboli l(ibera nos domine)

15 A dampnacione p(er)petua l(ibera nos domine)

Notes:

A Letters: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u/v,x,y,E.

Versals: A,D,E,F,G,I,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U/V,X.

B Alternative forms of ‘a’(2), ‘i’(2), ‘r’(2) and ‘s’(3) are used. An unusual form of

‘s’ is in ‘filios’ (folio 2, recto, line 15).

C Fusion between letters ‘ba’, ‘co’, ‘da’, ‘de’, ‘do’, ‘ha’, ‘he’, ‘ho’, ‘os’,

‘pa’, ‘pe’, ‘po’ and ‘pp’.

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

E Ligature between letters ‘st’.

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

G Abbreviation of ‘tanquam’ (folio 1, recto, line 15).

H Abbreviation of ‘rum’ in ‘eorum’ (folio 2, recto, line 7).

K Abbreviation for ‘libera nos domine’ (folio 6, verso, lines 13 to 15).

MS 62

Latin

4 leaves

A single gathering of four vellum leaves