Posted 4 years ago
Furee65
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I believe this is a leaf from the Book Of Hours but if anyone knows more about how old this could possibly date back to that would be greatly appreciated. Also curious about the (Piii) mark on the bottom and what it stands for.
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Well what is written there reads like this :
(Gloria patri geniteque proli flamini sancto virgi)
nique matri : que dei natum genuit hominem sit laus perennis.
V. Nec dum erant abyssi.
R. Et ego iam concepta eram.
Oremus.
Deus ineffabilis misericordie qui prime piaculum mulieris
per virginem expianda sanxisti : da nobis quesumus conceptionis eius
memoriam digne venerari que unigenitum tuum virgo concepit et virgo
peperit dominum nostrum iesum christum filium tuum.
Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate spiritussancti deus.
Per omnia secula seculorum. Amen.
Ad primam.
Deus in adiutorium meum intende.
Domine ad adiuvandum me festina.
Gloria patri et filio : et spiritui sancto.
Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper :
et in secula seculorum. Amen.
Hymnus.
Terminus noctis eternus aurora reddidit mundo mariam
[Painted initial T, another edition has Terminum, perhaps Germinum?]
premittens gaudium mundi stellam matutinam previam
solis. In ortu lucis stelle maris ponthus terra letantur gaudeat
peccator nascitur mater iesu redemptoris maria clemens.
Celici cives reges terre colunt, sterilis parit miratur natura
stupet infernus videns sine labe virginem nasci.
Gloria patri geniteque proli. Ut supra.
V. Conceptionem virginis marie cum gaudio celebremus.
I found that transcription from this site :
http://manuscripts.org.uk/chd.dk/tutor/index.html
The relevant page is this one :
http://manuscripts.org.uk/chd.dk/tutor/conceptio.html
The transcription on that page comes from the Heures a lusaige de Romme, Gillet & Germain Hardouyn, Paris 1509. But your page is not from that edition. I have not been able to find out which edition yours comes from. But the illustrations are similar in style to another version of Gillet & Germain Hardouyn that I have seen on the net.
What is interesting about your page is that the author mentions :
"Hymnus.
Terminus noctis eternus aurora reddidit mundo mariam [Painted initial T, another edition has Terminum, perhaps Germinum?]"
In fact your version of the text has Terminum and not Germinum.
Note the blue Capital T in the middle of the page.
It could well be from the edition he is mentioning.
Perhaps you could contact him for more detailed information ???
Wow thank you for you time and research. That is awesome
pooh you are going deep kid or you sure are just a teacher, seems post doc lol
By the way I think you will find that the Piii mark is a Binder's instruction.
"Binder’s instructions (also known as the register) appear frequently in books from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but they are not that common in seventeenth- or eighteenth-century books. Usually they consist of a series of signatures—giving names to gatherings—and an indication of how many leaves those gatherings consist." (https://collation.folger.edu/2014/05/abbreviations-and-signatures/)