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#144 The Pagasini family gave to tehe city of Venice not less
than 4 of its members who were engaged in book
printing + selling. The family came from Brescia
+ the 1st of its numbers who made his appearance was
Paganinus de Paganinis who from 1485 until 1488
worked in partnership with Georgius Arrivabene.
From 1490 we find the other members of the family
appearing - Jacobus, Alexander, Hieronymus.

The Office of the Dead (Officium defunctorum)
is another essential component of Books of Hours. The text
is not that of the Requium Mass (whcih belongs to the
Missal) but of prayers said over the coffin as it lies
on a bien in the church choir. The Office itself is an
old one dating back at least to the early 9th C, but
its widespread adaption did not become common
until the early 15th C. The solemn celebration of
death in late medieval times was in part a reaction
to the traumatic experience + memory of the Black Death
+ recurrent plagues; it was important to know how
to die well.
- The choir service in the Office of the Dead is in 2 parts -
Placebo + Dirige from the opening words of their
respective antiphons, Placebo Domino in regione
vivorum, said in the evening + Dirige, Domina
Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam, in
the morning.
"quotuor noissime"
Cordiale or 4 Lost Things,
Death, Last Judgement, Hell + Heaven,
p. 488 Elizabeth Eisunstein - "it was not that men turned frombooks to nature, but
rather than books went from script to print