Leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, printed by Philippe Pigouchet and produced in...

Text: From a Book of Hours, in Latin

Font: Font based on Textualis Formata (Textus Praescissus) script

Printer: Philippe Pigouchet

The text shows Psalms 84 and 116, and part of the Song of Solomon.

Early French Gothic black and red typeface. Hand-illuminated with initials and paragraph markers in gold, on grounds of blue and/or magenta. The decorative borders - the panelled surrounds are historiated or inhabited, and on the recto show a naked lady between two warriors, and men with strange creatures. On the verso are horse riders, men in armour, and little boys about to strike unusual fish, and a bird among flowers.

In purpose and format, printed Books of Hours followed the older manuscript examples. The more luxurious were printed on vellum, as is this leaf. The metal cuts were designed by the Master of Anne de Bretagne. Produced by Nicolas Higman for Simon Vostre in Paris. The leaf was at one time in the C.W. Dyson-Perrins collection.

Recto side:

1 meos despexit oculus me(us) . G loria pa-

2 tri et filio . S icut erat

Psalmus .

3 [84:2] B Enedixisti domine terram tuam : [Psalm 84

4 avertisti captivitatem iacob . [84:3] R e

5 misisti iniquitatem plebis tue : operuisti

6 omnia peccata eorum . [84:4] M itigasti om-

7 nem iram tuam : avertisti ab ira indigna-

8 tionis tue . [84:5] C onverte nos deus saluta-

9 ris noster : et averte iram tuam a nobis .

10 [84:6] N unquid in eternum irasceris nobis :

11 aut extendes iram tuam a generatione

12 in generationem . [84:7] D eus tu conversus

13 vivificabis nos : et plebs tua letabitur i(n)

14 te . [84:8] O stende nobis domine misericordi-

15 am tuam : et salutare tuum da nobis .

16 [84:9] A udiam quid loquatur in me d(omi)n(u)s de-

17 us : q(uonia)m loquetur pacem i(n) plebem suam .

18 E t super sanctos suos : et i(n) eos qui co(n)-

19 vertuntur ad cor . [84:10] V eru(m) tame(n) prope ti-

20 mentes eum salutare ipsius : ut i(n)habitet

21 gloria in terra nostra . [84:11] M isericordia et

22 veritas obviaverunt sibi : iusticia et pax

23 osculate sunt . [84:12] V eritas de terra orta est

24 et iusticia de celo prospexit . [84:13] E te(ni)m do-

25 minus dabit benignitatem : et terra n(ost)ra

26 dabit fructum suum . [84:14] I usticia ante eum

Verso side:

1 ambulabit : et ponet in via gressus suos .

2 G loria patri et filio : et spi(ritui) . S icut erat

3 in principio . (et) c(etera) .

Psalmus .

4 [116:1] L Audate dominum omnes ge(n)tes : [Psalm 116

5 laudate eum om(n)es populi . [116:2] Q uo-

6 niam co(n)nfirmata est super nos misericor-

7 dia eius : et veritas domini manet in eter-

8 num . G loria patri et filio . S icut erat

9 in principio . an(tiphona) . Assumpta est maria i(n) ce-

10 lum : gaudent angeli laudantes benedi-

11 cunt dominum .

Capitulum .

12 [6:9] Q Ue est ista que progreditur quasi [Song of Solomon

13 aurora co(n)surgens pulchra ut luna

14 electa ut sol : terribilis ut castrorum aci-

15 es ordinata . Deo gratias . v(ersus) . Dignare

16 me laudare te virgo sacrata . r(esponsorium) . Da mi-

17 chi virtutem contra hostes tuos . Kyri-

18 eleyson . Christe eleyson . Kyrieleyson .

19 Domine exaudi orationem mea(m) . Et cla-

20 mor meus ad te veniat .

Oremus .

21 D Eus qui virginalem aulam bea-

22 te marie in qua habitares eligere

23 dignatus es : da quesumus : ut sua nos

24 defensione munitos : iocu(n)dos faciat sue

25 interesse commemorationi . Qui vivis

26 et regnas deus Per omnia secula se(culorum) . (et) c(etera) .

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,C,D,E,K,O,P,Q,R,U/V.

B Versals: A,B,C,D,E,G,I,L,M,N,O,R,S,V,

.

C Alternative forms of the letters ‘d’(2), ‘m’(2), ‘r’(2) and ‘s’(2).

D Ligature between letters ‘st’, e.g. in ‘misisti’ (recto, line 5).

E There is no instance of ‘ct’ ligature.

F Capital letters are touched with yellow.

G Use of ‘. 7C .’ for ‘et cetera’, e.g. in verso, line 3. The Tironian ‘et’ does

not appear elsewhere.

H Very few abbreviations are used.

I All instances of the letter ‘i’, apart from where an insertion is indicated

have a diacritic mark.

J Lines in red ink drawn under text lines to simulate a real manuscript.