171 Sept 1783
Rossignol 650F=$81.76
quri St. Michel, Paris
Book of Hours - 15th C (ca. 1480) French. Flanders Low Countries
Manuscript leaf - written on velum - gothic letters
5 15/16 x 8". 12 lines to the page. Latin (panel)
7 burnished gold initials. Floral border on the left
or right with blue, lavendar, red + gold sprays. Bar
endings in blue + lavendar.
Office of the Dead (Lauds) PS 50+64.
fexia quarta Wed. Matins Wed. Lauds Psalm LXIV (65) Te decet hymnus (God's Abundant favor to
Earth + Man) "A hymn O God, becometh thee in Sion:
and a vow shall be paid to thee in Jerusalem."
Introit: Requriem + Verse: Te decat hymnus from the
Mass fo the Dead.
In its present form the liturgy of the Mass
begins with the Introit; originally this was an entire
psalm with its antiphon, chanted during the entrance
of the priest, but later was shortened to only a single
verse of the psalm with an antiphone.
A special Mass, so called from the 1st word of its
Introit which begins Requiem aeternnam dona eis
Domine ("Grant them eternal rest, O Lord") In the
Requiem Mass the Gloria + Credo are omitted, + the chant
Dies uae, dies illa ("Day of wrath, O dreadful day") is
inserted after the tract.
Sion - lit., a hill in Jerusalem on which stood the royal palace
fig., the Church, esp. the Church Militant, the faithful.
In general, Sion, is the Church on earth; Jerusalem, the Church
in heaven.
In France studies devoted to the manufacture of Books
of Hours existed from the latter 1/2 of the 13th C onwards.
rinceaux - foliate scrolls, usually a pattern of stylized
a canthus leaves.
acanthus - the leaf of the plant Acanthus spinosus.
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