Book of Hours Leaf

Book of Hours Leaf

English, 1350

Language: Latin

Single leaf

ink on parchment
height 17.5 cm
width 12.5 cm

Portland Art Museum, The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Arts Collection, 80.122.557

Wilma Fitzgerald, PhD, SP - Quoted with permission from an unpublished study

Breviarium. Dominica in Sexagesima. Saec. XIV med. England.One folio, 175 x 125 (117 x 75)., two columns of 30 lines. Eight red and blue initials on gold grounds with gold leaves at coners. Initials slightly larger than two lines in height. Owner marks 80.122.557 and G2727 at bottom of verso. Gift of Vivian and Gordon Gilkey.

// Ps. Venite ex. Hymnus: Primo dierum [Chev. #15455] Ant. Seruite Ps. Beatus uir R. lectio prima: [Gen. 2, 8-9] Formauit igitur dominus hominem de limo terre et inspirauit in faciem eius spiraculum uite et factus est homo...  R. de precedenti dom. lect. ii: [Gen. 2, 10-13] Et fluuius egrediebatur de loco uoluptatis ad irrigandum paradisum ... [R ]Lect. iii: [Gen. 2, 14-17] Nomen fluuius tercii Tygri [Tigris] ipse uadit contra Assyrios ... [R] Lect. iiii: Nemo enim est qui nesciat in principio hominem sic a deo plasmatum ut institutur prudencia ... Lect. vi:  Stabat Adam inter uxorem et dyabolum inter euam et ante mulierem ... Adam prothoplaustum circumuenit. Sec. Lucam:[Luc. 8, 4] In illo tempore cum turba plurima conueniret et de ciuitatibus ... Lectio sancti euangelii quammodo [Gregorius Magnus. Hom. in euang. Lib. I, 15 edited in PL 76. 1131], fratres karissimi, audisti fratres exposicione non indiget sed ammonicione ... discutere humana fragilitas non persumat  [Sed est quod sollicite in hac ipsa expositione] //  [Lessons 4-6 are Ps.-Augustine. See: CCSL Clavis Patrum Latinorum # 922 ed. Eligius Dekkers (Steenburg 1995) and PL 95. 1208-1210 Paulus Diaconus, Hom. LXII Dom. in Sexagesima: De lapsu primi hominis]