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May '78
Paris $32.60 (150F)
Miniature Book of Hours - France 15th C.
Double manuscript leaf - written on vellium
in a gothic hand - 14 lines to the page. 3 1/4 x 4 3/16".
Psalm 24 (see #59) Many small illuminated
initials. (Office of the Dead -
Matins - 2nd nocturn
The origin of Gothe script can be clearly traced to the round
Carolingian minuscules of the late 8+9th C. As early as the
ll C suggestions of the script are apparent. During the
cours of the 12th C there is a rapid development + in the
opening years of the 13th we are able to witness the 1st
bloom of a perfected script.
- In Horae the Kalendar is usually written on one guine of
6 or 12 leaves + his us signature or catchworks.
Kalendar (Paris Books) SS Marcellus, Geneuieve
Honorira, Opportuna
local Horae are distinguished by commemoration of
local Saints.
Sarum Use is distinguished by the combination of:
Hymn at Matins - Quem tena
Capitulum at Lauds - Maria uirgo
Collect at Lauds - Concede nos
The differences between the Rome +Paris Uses are matters
of detail rather than substance.
Psalm 24 - Ad Te Domine levavi amiman mecan - Deus meus in te
confido non erub escam
multiplicatae sunt: de necessitatibus meis
eiue me.