farfel_n03_084_173

173
Sept. 1983
Rossignol 200F=$25.16
Quai St. Michel, Paris.

Manuscript leaf on vellum - written in French in
a neat lettre batard. 15th C. (1450-70)
5 3/8 x 7 15/16". 24 lines to the page.
Alternating red + blue paragraph marks
unidentified religious text.-
no (?) = nota = (?) no Latin abbrev
See #18+256

French liturgival MSS in the vernacular are extremely
rare + mostly belong to the high renaissance often
they were made for women. Sometimes the Calenders
of Book of Hours are in French + various well known
prayers, but evidently the Office of the Virgin itself, like the
Canon of the Mass, was generally considered too holy for the
common language.

no 9=nous
n=ne
noe=notre
noe=nomme
not=notaire
nor=notre
Memorable lines were identified with the
inscription Nota. These annotations are
invaluable in assessing the interests of
medieval readers - a line so marked was
judges worthy of memory.