Manuscript leaf from a Psalter, in Latin, produced in Southern Netherlands

Text: From a Psalter, in Latin

Script: Textualis Formata (Textus Semiquadratus)

The text shows Psalm 118 from verse 79 to verse 108.

There are twenty-four lines, ruled in red, written in black ink in a gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, one seven-line initial ‘I’ in gold on blue and brown, three two-line initials in similar colours, and twenty-four one-line initials in burnished gold or blue with contrasting penwork.

This leaf may have come from a manuscript written for the English market.

Recto side:

1 noverunt testimonia tua . [118:80] F iat cor meu(m)

2 inmaculatu(m) in iustificationib(us) tuis ut no(n)

3 [118:81] D Efecit in saluta-

confundar p(salmu)s .

4 re tuum a(n)i(m)a mea : et in verbu(m) tuu(m)

5 supersperavi . [118:82] D efecerunt oculi mei in e-

6 loquium tuu(m) dicentes : quando consolab(er)is

7 me . [118:83] Q uia factus sum sicut uter i(n) pruina

8 iustificationes tuas non sum oblitus . [line filler]

9 [118:84] Q uod sunt dies servi tui : quando facies

10 de persequentib(us) me iudicium . [118:85] N arrave-

11 runt michi iniqui fabulationes : sed non

12 ut lex tua . [118:86] O mnia mandata tua veritas

13 iniqui persecuti sunt me adiuva me . [line filler]

14 [118:87] P aulo minus consummaverunt me i(n)

15 terra : ego autem non dereliqui mandata

16 tua . [118:88] S ecundum mi(sericordi)am tuam vivifica

17 me : et custodiam testimonia oris tui . p(salmu)s .

18 [118:89] I N eternum d(omi)ne verbum tuu(m) p(er)manet in

19 celo . [118:90] I n generatione (et) generatione(m) veri-

20 tas tua : fundasti terram (et) p(er)manet . [118:91] O rdi-

21 natione tua perseverat dies : q(uonia)m o(mn)ia serviu(n)t

22 tibi . [118:92] N isi quod lex tua meditatio mea est :

23 tunc forte perissem in humilitate mea . [line filler]

24 [118:93] I n eternum non obliviscar iustificat(i)o(n)es

Verso side:

1 tuas : quia in ipsis vivificasti me . [118:94] T uus

2 sum ego salvum me fac : q(uonia)m iustificatio(n)es

3 tuas exquesivi [118:95] M e expectaverunt p(e)cc(at)ores

4 ut perderent me : testimonia tua intellexi .

5 [118:96] O mnis consu(m)mationis vidi fine(m) : latum

6 mandatum tuum nimis . psalm(us) .

7 [118:97] Q Uomodo dilexi legem tuam domi(n)e :

8 tota die meditatio mea est . [118:98] S uper i(n)imicos

9 meos prudentem me fecisti mandato tuo : q(uia)

10 in eternum michi est . [118:99] S uper om(n)es docentes

11 me intellexi : quia testimonia tua medita-

12 tio mea est [118:100] S uper senes intellexi : quia ma(n)-

13 data tua quesivi . [118:101] A b omni via mala p(ro)-

14 hibui pedes meos : ut custodiam verba tua .

15 [118:102] A iudiciis tui non declinavi : quia tu lege(m)

16 posuisti michi . [118:103] Q uam dulcia faucibus

17 meis eloquia tua super mel ori meo [118:104] A ma(n)-

18 datis tuis intellexi : propterea odivi omne(m)

19 viam iniquitatis [line filler] psalmus [line filler] .

20 [118:105] L Ucerna pedib(us) meis verbum tuu(m) :

21 et lumen semitis meis . [118:106] I uravi (et) statui

22 custodire : iudicia iustitie tue . [118:107] H umiliat(us)

23 sum usq(ue) quaq(ue) d(omi)ne : vivifica me secundu(m)

24 verbum tuu(m) [118:108] V oluntaria oris mei be-

Notes:

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

Capitals: E,N,U.

Versals: A,D,F,H,I,L,M,N,O,P,Q,S,T,

.

B Alternative forms of letters ‘a’(2), ‘i’(2), ‘r’(3) and ‘s’(3).

Note use of a majuscule ‘r’ in ‘confundar’ (recto, line 3).

Note use of a trailing ‘s’ in ‘veritas’ (recto, line 12).

C Fusion between letters ‘be’, ‘da’, ‘de’, ‘do’, ‘oc’, ‘od’, ‘oe’,

‘oq’, ‘pa’, ‘pc’ and ‘pe’.

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

E Ligature of ‘st’, e.g. in ‘testimonia’ (recto, line 1).

F Abbreviation of ‘anima’ (recto, line 4).

G Abbreviation of ‘misericordiam’ (recto, line 16).

H Abbreviations of ‘quoniam’ and ‘omnia’ (recto, line 21).

I Use of a crossed Tironian ‘et’ (e.g. recto, line 19).

J Capital letters are touched with red.

K Simple pen-drawn line fillers (e.g. recto, line 13).

L On verso, line 19, after ‘iniquitatis’ and ‘psalmus’ there

appears to be the round letter ‘r’. These may be flourishes.

M Hairlines are used with some final letters and on the round ‘r’.