Cincinnati Public Library, Ohio

Cincinnati Public Library, Ohio

Book of Hours, FOL 48

This particular leaf is from the Hours of the Virgin at Matins. The recto contains text which is made up of both a response and versicle from an antiphone. The text contained on the recto is most likely from the last part of the second lesson (Ecclesiasticus 24). The third lesson begins on the recto and continues onto the verso with the verso containing a versicle.

The text on the verso also contains the beginning lines of the Hymn of Saints Ambrose and Augustine.

There also appears to be part of a catchword on the bottom right of the verso. It seems to be "didatus" which makes up most of the partial last word found on that page, "candidatus" This word is broken up between the verso and the next leaf that follows.

The leaf also contains a number of initials in tight decorated squares that appear to be illuminated as well as containing red and blue ink. An illuminated bar takes up the whole of the margin on both the recto and the verso and contains acanthus leaves as well as floral elements in both blue and red ink. The text is written below the top line and there is biting of letters.

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Last Quarter of the 15th Century - Reims and Chalons-sur-Marne regions of northeastern France

Zoe Hill

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Incipit of recto: "regnat super ethera. Ut sua caritate nostra deleantur peccamina."

Explicit of recto: "Tu autem domine miserere nostri. Deo gracias. R. Felix namque"

Incipit of verso: "es sacra virgo maria et omni laude dignissima quia"

Explicit of verso: "Te Prophetarum laudabilis numerus. Te Martyrum candi.."

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