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

Text: From a Book of Hours, in Latin

Script: Textualis Formata (Textus Semiquadratus)

The text shows part of Job, and is in a single column of eighteen lines, in a gothic book hand. One two-line gold initial in brushed gold on a pink or maroon ground and a brightly coloured panel border of acanthus leaves and other foliage and flowers painted on backgrounds of blue, pink, maroon, and brushed gold. Rubrics are in red. Faint line ruling is in red.

Recto side:

1 [10:1] . . . mee dimittam adversum me [Job 10:1

2 eloquiu(m) meum . loquar i(n) amari-

3 tudine a(n)i(m)e mee [10:2] dicam deo . Noli

4 me condemnare . Indica m(ichi) cur

5 me ita iudices : [10:3] Nunquid bonu(m)

6 tibi videtur si calu(m)nieris (et) oppri-

7 mas me opus manuu(m) tuar(um) (et)

8 consiliu(m) impior(um) adiuves : [10:4] Nu(m)-

9 quid oculi carnei tibi sunt aut

10 sicut videt ho(mo) (et) tu vides . [10:5] Nu(m)-

11 quid sicut dies ho(min)is dies tui (et) an- [indecisive letter

12 ni tui sicut humana sunt te(m)pora

13 [10:6] Ut queras iniquitate(m) meam :

14 (et) peccatu(m) meum s(cru)teris . [10:7] Et sci-

15 as q(uia) nichil i(m)p(iu)m feceri(m) : cum sit

16 nemo qui de manu tua possit

17 eruere . R(esponsorium) Qui lazar(um) resuscitasti

18 a monumento fetidu(m) . Tu eis d(omi)ne

Verso side:

1 dona requiem (et) locum indulgencie

2 v(ersus) Qui ventur(us) es iudicare vivos (et) mor-

3 tuos (et) seculum per ignem Tu eis .

4 [10:8] M anus tue d(omi)n(u)s fecerunt [Job 10:8

5 me (et) plasmaveru(n)t me

6 totum in circuitu (et) sic repente

7 precipitas me . [10:9] memento queso

8 q(uod) sicut lutu(m) feceris me (et) in pul-

9 verem reduces me . [10:10] Nonne sicut

10 lac mulsisti me . (et) sicut caseu(m) me

11 coagulasti [10:11] Pelle (et) carnib(us) vesti-

12 sti me . ossib(us) (et) nervis compegisti

13 me . [10:12] Vitam (et) m(isericord)iam tribuisti m(ichi)

14 (et) visitatio tua custodivit (et) sp(iritu)m

15 meu(m) . R(esponsorium) Domine qu(ando) veneris iudi-

16 care terra(m) ubi me absconda(m) a vul-

17 tu ire tue Quia peccavi minus in

18 vita mea . V(ersus) Co(m)missa mea paveseo

Notes:

A Letters: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u/v,z,C,D,E,I,N,P,Q,R,S,T,U/V.

Versal: M.

B Alternative forms of letters ‘m’(2), ‘r’(2) and ‘s’(2) - Uncial ‘m’ (verso, line 7).

C Fusion between letters ‘bo’, ‘de’, ‘do’, ‘Do’, ‘es’, ‘ho’, ‘me’, ‘oc’, ‘od’, ‘oq’,

‘os’, ‘pe’, ‘po’, ‘pp’ and ‘ve’.

D Elision between letters ‘cu’, ‘ti’ and ‘tu’.

E Ligature with ‘st’, e.g. in ‘mulsisti’ (verso, line 10).

F Use of Tironian ‘et’ (e.g. recto, line 7).

G Abbreviation for ‘michi’ (recto, line 4).

H Abbreviation for ‘rum’ in ‘tuarum’ (recto, line 7).

I Abbreviation for ‘misericordiam’ (verso, line 13).

J Abbreviation for ‘quando’ (verso, line 15).