Manuscript leaf from a Psalter, in Latin, produced in France (or Flanders)

Text: From a Psalter, in Latin

Script: Textualis Formata (Textus Quadratus)

The text from a Psalter shows parts of Psalms 128 to 130. Line and column rulings are in black. There is a single column of seventeen lines of text in a gothic book hand; rubrics are in red. There are three two-line versals, two of which have marginal extensions, and fifteen one-line versals in blue or burnished gold with red or blue penwork. The extension on the Versal ‘D’ on the verso may represent a dragon.

Phillip Pirages had suggested that this leaf was English.

Recto side:

1 [128:4] D (omi)n(u)s iustus concidet cervices pecato- [peccatorum ?

2 rum [128:5] confundantur et convertantur

3 retrorsum om(ne)s qui oderunt syon .

4 [128:6] F iant sicut fenum tecto(rum) q(uo)d prius-

5 quam evellatur exaruit [128:7] D e quo

6 non implevit manum suam qui

7 metet et sinum suu(m) qui manipulos

8 colliget [128:8] E t non dixerunt qui pre-

9 teribant benedictio d(omi)ni super vos be-

10 nediximus vobis in no(m)i(n)e d(om)i(n)i p(salmu)s .

11 [129:1] D e profundis clamavi ad te d(omi)ne [Psalm 129

12 [129:2] d(omi)ne exaudi vocem mea(m) F ia(n)t

13 aures tue intendentes in vocem depre-

14 cationis mee [129:3] S i iniquitates obser-

15 vaveris d(omi)ne d(omi)ne quis sustinebit .

16 [129:4] Q uia aput te propitiatio est . et pro- [apud ?

17 pter legem tuam sustinui te d(omi)ne .

Verso side:

1 S ustinuit anima mea in verbo eius .

2 [129:5] speravit anima mea in d(omi)no [129:6] A custo-

3 dia matutina usq(ue) ad noctem speret

4 isr(ae)l in d(omi)no . [129:7] Q uia apud d(omi)n(u)m mi(sericordi)a

5 et copiosa . apud eum redempti(o) [129:8] E t

6 ipse redimet isr(ae)l ex om(n)ibus iniquita-

7 tibus eius . [130:1] psalmus david .- [Psalm 130

8 D omine non est exaltatum cor

9 meu(m) : neq(ue) elati sunt oculi mei

10 N eq(ue) ambulavi in magnis : neq(ue) i(n)

11 mirabilib(us) sup(er) me [130:2] S i n(on) humiliter

12 sentiebam : sed exaltavi anima(m) mea(m)

13 F icut ablatatus super matre sua . [should be ‘Sicut ablactatus’

14 ita retributio in anima mea [130:3] S pe-

15 ret isr(ae)l in d(omi)no : ex hoc nunc et usq(ue) in [see Note J

16 [131:1] M emento domine p(salmu)s d(avi)d .  s(e)c(u)l(u)m .

17 david et om(n)is mansuetudinis

Notes:

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

Versals: A,D,E,F,M,Q,S.

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

C Fusion between letters ‘be’, ‘de’, ‘ho’, ‘oc’ and ‘pe’.

D Ligature between letters ‘ct’, e.g. in ‘noctem’ (verso, line 3).

E Ligature between letters ‘st’, e.g. in ‘est’ (verso, line 8).

F Abbreviation of ‘misericordia’ to ‘mia’ (verso, line 4).

G Abbreviation for ‘ue’, e.g. in ‘neque’ (verso, line 10).

H Abbreviation for ‘super’ (verso, line 11).

I On the verso line 13, the first word should be ‘Sicut’ and not ‘Ficut’.

Perhaps the scribe who painted the blue versal misread a long ‘s’ as ‘f’.

J The text on verso line 15 is followed by ‘seculum’ in line 16.

K Abbreviation for ‘david’ (verso, line 16).

L There is apparent mis-spellings of ‘peccatorum’ (recto, line 1),

‘apud’ (recto, line 16) and ‘ablactatus’ (verso, line 13).