Cleveland Institute of Art Leaf 50
This is a leaf from a Book of Hours made in France in, according to Ege, about the year 1535. It is the latest, or most recent, of the 50 leaves in the Ege portfolio, and measures 16 x 11.5 cm. The script is a curved gothic, and quite distinctive; notice especially the variety of directions and styles of the ascenders. By contrast the large illuminated initials seem very bulky and old-fashioned. Lesser first letters are filled with yellow. See Denison University Leaf 50 for more information about this manuscript.
Text: From the Suffrages to the Saints, here including Dionysius and the Archangel Michael.
Cleveland Institute of Art Leaf 50 Recto
Cleveland Institute of Art Leaf 50 Recto
Cleveland Institute of Art Leaf 50 Recto Transcription
De sancto Dionysio. Ant: O beate Dionysi magna est fides tua: intercede pro nobis ad Dominum Deum nostrum ut qui qualitate tibi sumus dissimiles sua gratia largiente: caelestium gaudiorum faciat esset consortes. [ ]. Oratio.
Deus qui beatum Dionysium martyrem tuum virtute constantiae in passione roborasti: quique illi ad praedicandum gentibus gloriam tuam Rusticum et Eleutherium sociare dignatus es tribue
Cleveland Institute of Art Leaf 50 Recto Translation
Of Saint Dionysius. Ant: O blessed Dionysius, great is thy faith: intercede for us with the Lord our God so that by the bestowal of his grace he may cause us who are unlike thee in nature to be consorts of the heavenly joys. [ ]. Prayer.
O God, who strengthened the blessed Dionysius thy martyr by the virtue of constancy in suffering, and who vouchsafed to associate to him Rusticus and Eleutherius for the preaching of thy glory to the peoples...
Cleveland Institute of Art Leaf 50 Verso
Cleveland Institute of Art Leaf 50 Verso
Cleveland Institute of Art Leaf 50 Verso Transcription
nobis quaesumus ex eorum imitatione pro amore tuo prospera mundi despicere: et nulla eius adversa formidare. Per Christum domum nostrum. De sancto Michaele archangelo.
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Cleveland Institute of Art Leaf 50 Verso Translation
...grant us, we pray, by the imitation of them to despise the prosperities of the world for love of thee and to dread none of its misfortunes. Through Christ our Lord. Of Saint Michael the Archangel.
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