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Cincinnati Public Library Leaf 48

This leaf is from a Dutch Book of Hours from the late fifteenth century. It measures 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Compared to the other specimens of fifteenth-century Books of Hours in the portfolios, this one contains highly "itemized" pages: the red ink used for the rubrications sharply contrasts with the brown ink; several 1- or 2-line initials rendered in gold on a background of blue or red bring light into the text block of most leaves; and many lesser first letters are filled with yellow. Despite this lavish plan, all leaves from this manuscript show evidence of problematic adherence of the gold leaf, and/or incomplete decoration or text. See Denison University Leaf 48 for more information about this manuscript.

Text: This leaf contains text from the Hours of the Virgin at Matin, the first nocturne.

Reconstruction Note! In Ege's original manuscript, this leaf was followed by what is now Leaf 48 in the Lima Public Library portfolio.

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Cincinnati Leaf 48 Recto
Cincinnati Leaf 48 Recto

Cincinnati Public Library Leaf 48 Recto

+ Cincinnati Leaf 48 Recto Transcription

regnat super ethera. Ut sua caritate nostra deleantur peccamina. Tu autem domine miserere nostri. Deo gracias. R. Beata es virgo maria que dominum portasti creatorem mundi, genuisti qui te fecit et in eternum permanes virgo. V. Ave maria gracia plena dominus tecum. Genuisti qui te fecit et in eternum permanes virgo. Iube domine benedicere. Sancta dei gentrix sit nobis auxiliatrix. Amen. Lectio tercia.

Sancta dei genitrix que digne meruisti concipere quem totus orbis nequivit comprehendere tuo pro interventu culpas nostras ablue ut perhennis sedem glorie per te redempti valeamus scandere ubi manes cum filio tuo sine tempore. Tu autem domine miserere nostri. Deo gracias. R. Felix namque

+ Cincinnati Leaf 48 Recto Translation

A translation of this leaf is currently unavailable.


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Cincinnati Leaf 48 Verso
Cincinnati Leaf 48 Verso

Cincinnati Public Library Leaf 48 Verso

+ Cincinnati Leaf 48 Verso Transcription

es sacra virgo maria et omni laude dignissima quia ex te ortus est sol iusticie xpe deus noster. V. Ora pro populo interveni pro clero intercede pro devoto femineo sexu senciant omnes tuum levamen quicumque celebrant tuam commemoracionem. Quia ex te ortus est sol iusticie xpe deus noster. Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto. Xpe deus noster.

Te Deum laudamus: te Dominum confitemur.
Te aeternum patrem: omnis terra veneratur.
Tibi omnes Angeli: tibi caeli, et universae potestates.
Tibi Cherubim, et Seraphim: incessabili voce proclamant.
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus: Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt caeli, et terra: maiestatis gloriae tuae.
Te gloriosus Apostolorum chorus.
Te Prophetarum laudabilis numerus.
Te Martyrum candi-

+ Cincinnati Leaf 48 Verso Translation

A translation of this leaf is currently unavailable.


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