{"id":17288,"date":"2022-11-26T23:49:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T23:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=17288"},"modified":"2025-01-18T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T15:13:13","slug":"two-pages-from-a-roman-breviary-in-gothic-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/two-pages-from-a-roman-breviary-in-gothic-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Pages from a Roman Breviary in Gothic Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Two Framed Pages<br \/>\nfrom a Roman Breviary<br \/>\non Vellum in Latin in Gothic Script<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>containing<\/em><br \/>\nHours for First Sunday after Easter<br \/>\n<em>and<\/em><br \/>\nVespers for Holy Trinity Sunday<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_17316\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17316\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17316 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-902x1024.jpg 902w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-132x150.jpg 132w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-768x872.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-1353x1536.jpg 1353w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-1804x2048.jpg 1804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Roman Breviary Leaf in Frame: Page with Part of Vespers for Holy Trinity Sunday. Photography By Mildred Budny. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Single-Column Pages<br \/>\nlaid out in 27 lines of Gothic Script<br \/>\nwith<br \/>\nRubrications,<br \/>\nMinor Initials in Red or Blue Pigment,<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nEnlarged Initials<br \/>\nembellished with Pen-line Decoration<\/h2>\n<p>[<em>Posted on 27 November 2022<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Two separate leaves, now in frames, in a Private Collection contain parts of a Latin <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_Breviary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breviary for Roman Use<\/a>, that is, the Church of Rome, or <em>Breviarum Romanum<\/em>. (See, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/breviary.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Roman Breviary<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_Breviary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roman Breviary<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Some earlier blogposts have considered fragments of Latin Breviaries or related liturgical books.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/two-vellum-leaves-from-a-large-format-latin-breviary-in-gothic-script\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Vellum Leaves from a Large-Format Breviary in Gothic Script<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-pearly-gateway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pearly Gateway<\/a>: A Scrap from a Latin Missal or Breviary<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-from-prime-in-a-large-format-breviary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">A Leaf from Prime in a Large-Format Breviary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/written-in-the-stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Written in the Stars<\/a>: Roman Breviary Fragment with Latin Lections on Astrology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For example, from a different Private Collection, several leaves from a Roman Breviary:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11237\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11237\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11237 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_2232-Pair-of-Continuous-Leaves-ending-a-Roman-Breviary-cropped-sans-Guide-1024x610.jpg\" alt=\"Private Collection. Breviary Fragment, Folios IIv\/Ir, with Revised Title and Penultimate Page of the Lections. Photography by Mildred Budny.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_2232-Pair-of-Continuous-Leaves-ending-a-Roman-Breviary-cropped-sans-Guide-1024x610.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_2232-Pair-of-Continuous-Leaves-ending-a-Roman-Breviary-cropped-sans-Guide-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_2232-Pair-of-Continuous-Leaves-ending-a-Roman-Breviary-cropped-sans-Guide-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection. Breviary Fragment, Folios IIv\/Ir, with Revised Title and Penultimate Page of the Lections. Photography by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>The Pages from Two Leaves<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_17313\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17313\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17313 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145751-Quis-est-autem-Leaf-in-Frame-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145751-Quis-est-autem-Leaf-in-Frame-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145751-Quis-est-autem-Leaf-in-Frame-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145751-Quis-est-autem-Leaf-in-Frame-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145751-Quis-est-autem-Leaf-in-Frame-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145751-Quis-est-autem-Leaf-in-Frame-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145751-Quis-est-autem-Leaf-in-Frame-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Roman Breviary Leaf in Frame: Page in the Hours for First Sunday after Easter. Photography By Mildred Budny. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The visible sides of the vellum leaves, on one page per leaf, contain parts of the text from the <strong>Hours for the First Sunday after Easter<\/strong> (see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Sunday_of_Easter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Sunday of Easter<\/a>) and from <strong>Vespers for Holy Trinity Sunday<\/strong> (see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trinity_Sunday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trinity Sunday<\/a>).\u00a0 Let us call the\u00a0 <strong>Leaves 1 and 2<\/strong>, taking them in the sequence of their seasonal occasions in the cycle of the liturgical year, which extends from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advent<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trinity_Sunday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trinity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the Western liturgical calendar, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trinity_Sunday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trinity Sunday<\/a> is the first Sunday after <a href=\"en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pentecost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Pentecost<\/a>; it is intended to celebrate the doctrine of the Trinity, the three Persons of God, namely the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Easter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Easter (or Resurrection) Sunday<\/a> commemorates Jesus\u2019 resurrection from the dead; the event is reported in the canonical <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gospel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gospels<\/a> (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) and some other sources.\u00a0 As the start of Eastertide, or the Paschal season, Easter Sunday is followed by seven weeks to the fiftieth day on Pentecost Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The contents of the other sides of the leaves are unknown, apart from show-through onto the visible sides.\u00a0 The text establishes that the two leaves were non-continuous in their former manuscript.<\/p>\n<p>The vellum material of both leaves is evident in the texture of the visible surfaces as well as undulations across the expanse of the stretched animal skins. The smooth, whitish appearance makes it appear that both pages stand on the flesh sides of their skins.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing the Leaves to light, we report the contents of the Pages, with descriptions and photographs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>The Pages and Frames<\/h2>\n<p>After purchasing the two leaves as a pair, their Collector had them framed for display as part of a group of carefully framed leaves from medieval manuscripts, selected for their features of script, text, and calligraphy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17321\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17321\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17321 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145917-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Frame-Back-cropped-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145917-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Frame-Back-cropped-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145917-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Frame-Back-cropped-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145917-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Frame-Back-cropped-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145917-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Frame-Back-cropped-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145917-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Frame-Back-cropped-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145917-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Frame-Back-cropped-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Back of Frame. Photography by Mildred Budny. Reproduced by Permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_17316\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17316\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17316 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-902x1024.jpg 902w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-132x150.jpg 132w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-768x872.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-1353x1536.jpg 1353w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145850-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-in-Frame-upright-cropped-more-1804x2048.jpg 1804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Roman Breviary Leaf in Frame: Page with Part of Vespers for Holy Trinity Sunday. Photography By Mildred Budny. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Collector entrusted this pair of leaves from one manuscript, and another pair from a different medieval liturgical manuscript, to the same firm for framing. Both pairs were given golden wooden frames and gold-rimmed windowed mats.<\/p>\n<p>The pair of Roman Breviary leaves received separate frames, one for each leaf.<\/p>\n<p>The pair of small-format leaves, from a Book of Hours in Latin, received a single frame, placing the two side by side, with individual windows, in the single mat.<\/p>\n<p>The frames were made by \u201cThe House of Heydenryk \/ 417th E. 76th ST. \/ NEW YORK, N. Y. 10021\u201d, as affirmed by the framer&#8217;s label affixed to the back of each frame.<\/p>\n<h3>The Companion Pair of Small-Format Vellum Leaves in a Heydenryk Frame<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_17322\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17322\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17322 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145623-Pair-of-Leaves-in-Heydenryk-Frame-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Private Collection, Pair of Small-Format Vellum Leaves within a single frame made by The House of Heydenryk, New York City. Front of Frame. Photography by Mildred Budny. Reproduced by permission.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145623-Pair-of-Leaves-in-Heydenryk-Frame-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145623-Pair-of-Leaves-in-Heydenryk-Frame-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145623-Pair-of-Leaves-in-Heydenryk-Frame-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145623-Pair-of-Leaves-in-Heydenryk-Frame-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145623-Pair-of-Leaves-in-Heydenryk-Frame-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145623-Pair-of-Leaves-in-Heydenryk-Frame-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Pair of Small-Format Vellum Leaves within a single frame made by The House of Heydenryk, New York City. Front of Frame. Photography by Mildred Budny. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>The Pair of Pages from a Roman Breviary<\/h2>\n<p>Each Page contains 27 lines of thirteenth-century Gothic minuscule script, in two sizes.\u00a0 The text is written in brown ink with divisions and inscriptions in a vegetal red pigment.\u00a0 There are decorated initials, inset in two indented lines at the start of <em>capituli<\/em>, in blue or red pigment, with pen-line decoration in the opposite color both within and outside the letter form.\u00a0 Section-markers appear in blue pigment.<\/p>\n<p>The script and decoration on both Pages appear to be the work of the same scribal artist, or closely similar scribal hands.<\/p>\n<p>The texts can be identified using (later) published breviaries. No freely-available text appears to reproduce the exact Offices on the Pages, but two come sufficiently close, while they contain versions following changes adopted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Council_of_Trent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Council of Trent<\/a> (1545 and 1563).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Breviarium Romano-Monasticum, Pauli V et Urbani VIII PP. MM. jussu editum, oro omnibus sub Regula S. Patris Benedicti militantibus, praecipue nunc ad usum Congrationis Hispanae<\/em> (1779), available online via<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4BMSqZQg2fgC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4BMSqZQg2fgC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Breviarium Romanum ex decreto Sacrosancto Concilii Tridentini restitutum S. PII Pontificis Maximi, jussu editum Clementis VIII et Urbani VIII auctoritate regognitum, cum approbatione reverendissime et illustrissime domini dominii Ignati, episcopi Ratisbonensis<\/em> (1862), available online via<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=FC9HAAAAcAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=FC9HAAAAcAA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Page on &#8216;Leaf 1&#8217;: Hours for the First Sunday after Easter<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_17315\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17315\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17315 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145758-Quis-est-autum-Leaf-cropped-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145758-Quis-est-autum-Leaf-cropped-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145758-Quis-est-autum-Leaf-cropped-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145758-Quis-est-autum-Leaf-cropped-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145758-Quis-est-autum-Leaf-cropped-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145758-Quis-est-autum-Leaf-cropped-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145758-Quis-est-autum-Leaf-cropped-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Roman Breviary Leaf in Frame: Page with part of Hours for First Sunday after Easter. Photography By Mildred Budny. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The text on the Page begins with the abbreviated word <em>noster<\/em> in ink, then moves to the rubric in red:\u00a0 <em>Et reliquis sicut notata sunt in Dominica de psalmis. Et sic dicuntur prima cotidie usque ad ascensionem.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The text extends to another rubric:\u00a0 <em>Item. hymnus. \u2123. \u211e brevia. antiphona. laudum. et per horas diei exceptis. antiphona in vesperis dicuntur sili modo sicut predictem est tam in dominicas quam in feruo usque ad ascen[sionem].<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are no enlarged initials within the text.\u00a0 There are two double-height decorated initials at the start of the two <em>capituli<\/em>:\u00a0 <em>Q<\/em> of \u2018Quis est autem\u2019 (lines 7\u20128); and <em>S<\/em> of \u2018Si testimonium\u2019 (lines 12\u201213).\u00a0 They are formed alternately in blue and red pigment, with the reverse color for decoration.\u00a0 Five blue section-markers (\u00b6) appear respectively on line 2, before \u2018Ad tertiam\u2019; line 6, before \u2018Ad sextam\u2019; line 12, before \u2018Ad nonam\u2019&#8217; line 23, before \u2018Notandum\u2019; and line 25, before \u2018Item\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The text pertains to part of the Hours for the First Sunday after Easter.\u00a0 This Sunday is known traditionally as\u201cDominica in Albis [deposuitis]\u2019, that is, \u2018The Sunday when white [clothes] are put away\u2019. According to ancient practice, the newly baptized would wear a white tunic for Easter and the next seven days; this white tunic would be put away on the Sunday following Easter.<\/p>\n<p>The text on the Page does not name the day explicitly, but the identification is confirmed by both the sequence of elements which uniquely occur on that day in the standard breviary, and the rubric for &#8216;Sundays until Ascension\u2019, that is, the forty days following Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<h3>Page on &#8216;Leaf 2&#8217;: Vespers for Trinity Sunday<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_17317\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17317\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17317 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-780x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-780x1024.jpg 780w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-768x1008.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-1170x1536.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-1560x2048.jpg 1560w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20190226_145904-Benedictus-Deus-Leaf-Closer-cropped-1-scaled.jpg 1950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection, Roman Breviary Leaf in Frame: Page with Part of Vespers for Holy Trinity Sunday. Photography By Mildred Budny. Reproduced by permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The text begins mid-word:<\/p>\n<p><em>[Dixit Jesus: ut sciatis autem, quia Filius hominis habet postestatem in terra dimitten-\/]<\/em><br \/>\n<em>di peccata, ait paralytico: tibi dico, surge: tolle lectum tuum, et vade in domum tuam, alleluia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The text extends to:<\/p>\n<p><em>semper muniamur adversis.<\/em> <em>Qui uiuis<\/em> [these two words cancelled and replaced by <em>Per Dominum<\/em> added in lower margin].\u00a0 <em>Et fit commemeratio Dominicae<\/em> [\/ <em>primae post Pentecosten<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>There are three enlarged initials within the text: <em>P<\/em> in blue, and <em>C<\/em> and <em>G<\/em> in red.\u00a0 Four 2-line high decorated initials appear at the start of major sections, alternately in red and blue with pen-line decoration in the contrasting color:<br \/>\n<em>D<\/em> of \u2018Da quaesumus\u2019 (lines 2\u20123); <em>M<\/em> of \u2018Mentibis nostris\u2019 (lines 12\u201213); <em>B<\/em> of \u2018Benedictus deus\u2019 (lines 17\u201218); and <em>O<\/em> of \u2018Omnipotens sempiterne\u2019 (lines 23\u201224).\u00a0 A blue section-marker (\u00b6) occurs on line 6 before \u2018Sabbato\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the usual texual abbreviations (\u204a for \u2018et\u2019,\u00a0 for \u2018con\u2019, p for per, etc.), the layout is compressed, implying that the manuscript was intended for an experienced officiant. The text has the expected abbreviations of \u2123 (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/versicle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Versicle<\/a>) and \u211e (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Response<\/a>), <em>o<\/em> for \u2018oratio\u2019 (Prayer), p\u0305s\u0305 for \u2018psalmus\u2019 (Psalm), and C\u0101p for \u2018Capitulum&#8217; (&#8220;Chapter&#8221;).\u00a0 (See <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liturgy_of_the_Hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liturgy of the Hours<\/a>.)\u00a0 It also contains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ad M\u0313 a\u2019 ad Magnificat, antiphona.<\/li>\n<li>ad B\u0313 a\u2019 ad Benedictus, antiphona<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Similar abbreviated references within the text itself assume a fairly detailed knowledge of the Offices.\u00a0 The reading from <em>Ambrosius<\/em> (the Church Father <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ambrose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ambrose<\/a>) gives only the first line, with no indication of book or chapter.\u00a0 The reading from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gospel_of_Luke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gospel of Luke<\/a> gives only the Gospel (\u2018secundum lucam\u2019) and the first line.\u00a0 There is a backward reference to an earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/versicle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Versicle<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Response<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%20109&amp;version=VULGATE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psalm 109<\/a> is identified only as \u2018Dixit dominus\u2019 (&#8220;The Lord Said&#8221;).\u00a0 The abbreviation <em>Laudate. d.o.g.<\/em> serves for \u2018Laudate dominum omnes gentes\u2019 (&#8220;Praise the Lord, all ye nations&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The last line of text contains two words from the longer version of the prayer:\u00a0 \u201c. . . semper muniamur aduersis. Qui uiuis [et regnas Deus, per omnia secula seculorum]\u201d.\u00a0 The phrase \u201cQui uiuis\u201d is struck through with a horizontal stroke in brown ink.\u00a0 In the margin below, the words \u201cPer Dominum\u201d replacing it is entered (with similar ink) in a later hand, perhaps sixteenth-century.\u00a0 The longer form is found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ceremoniesandpr00churgoog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ceremonies and processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury<\/a>, edited by Christopher Wordsworth and published in 1901.<\/p>\n<p>Comparison with the two breviary sources cited above shows that the text on this Page comprises the end of the Offices for Saturday, followed by the start of Vespers for Holy Trinity Sunday.<\/p>\n<h3>Report Booklet:\u00a0 Two Pages from a Roman Breviary<\/h3>\n<p>A detailed Research Report is now available, in print and as a downloadable pdf.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leslie J. French, <em>Two Pages from a Roman Breviary containing Vespers for Holy Trinity Sunday and Hours for First Sunday after Easter<\/em> (Princeton, New Jersey:\u00a0 Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We offer the printable file of the Report Booklet in two versions, or &#8216;flavors&#8217;, according with printing facilities and preferences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Consecutive Pages<\/strong> (quarto size, or 8 1\/2&#8243; \u00d7 11&#8243; sheets)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/17290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">consecutive pages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Foldable Booklet<\/strong> (11&#8243; \u00d7 17&#8243; sheets), to be folded in half, producing a nested group of bifolia<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/17291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">foldable booklet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Report provides Photographs (by Mildred Budny) and Transcriptions and Translations of the texts on the pages (by Leslie J. French) , with descriptions and analysis by both authors.<\/p>\n<p>An account of the testimony of the Pages identifies the form of liturgical Use to which their text corresponds (that of Rome), specifies the nature or genre of that liturgical book (a Breviary), and suggests a preliminary Reconstruction of their place within its former span.<\/p>\n<p>With the aim of bringing these leaves to light, we leave to further research the discovery of other leaves from their manuscript, a fuller conjectured reconstruction of its original extent, a detailed analysis of its features of script, decoration, text, and other evidence, and evaluations of its probable original date and location of production, its history of use, and any indications of its provenance before its dismemberment and dispersal, presumably some time in the later twentieth century, after which the two leaves came into their present collection.<\/p>\n<p>We thank the owner for generous permission to photography, study, and publish the Pages.<\/p>\n<h4>Report Booklets on Liturgical and other Fragments of Books<\/h4>\n<p>Although some of our blogposts (for our Blog on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manuscript Studies<\/a>) report materials of such kind, this Research Report stands among several which the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence has prepared from manuscript or early printed fragments belonging to liturgical books in Latin, on vellum or paper, including Missals and Breviaries. Available in printed form and as downloadable pdfs on the RGME website, they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>A Detached Printed Leaf containing part of The Mass for Holy Saturday for Carmelite Use<\/em> (2020)<br \/>\nSee <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/carmelite-missal-leaf-of-1509\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carmelite Missal Leaf of 1509<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>A Leaf from the Warburg Missal (\u201cEge MS 22\u201d) containing part of The Mass for Corpus Christi and its Relation to\u00a0Other\u00a0Leaves<\/em> (2021)<br \/>\nSee <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-weber-leaf-from-the-warburg-missal-otto-ege-manuscript-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Weber Leaf from &#8220;The Warburg Missal&#8221; (Otto Ege Manuscript 22)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Missal Bifolium Printed on Vellum by Wolfgang Hopyl<\/em> (forthcoming).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An early version of the Report for the pair of framed Leaves from a Roman Breviary was one of the first of them.<\/p>\n<p>We began the Report in 2019 when the collection first came to our attention , and shared it in a preliminary form with the Collector, but we had to put aside for other tasks before its completion for publication.\u00a0 This blogpost describes the discoveries about the pair more fully, to prepare the publication of the Report, to take its place among the series of RGME Report Booklets.<\/p>\n<p>The quarto-sized Booklet will soon be available for download in two formats, depending upon preference and printing facility.\u00a0 When the Booklet is ready, it can be downloaded here.\u00a0 Please watch this space.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/17290\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> in letter (quarto) size (8 1\/2 \u00d7 11&#8243; sheets)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/17291\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foldable Booklet<\/a> for printing on 11&#8243; \u00d7 17&#8243; sheets<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Updates<\/h3>\n<p>With the creation of the RGME Workshops on &#8220;The Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.&#8221; (from 2024), we turn to these pages as cases for study, to show the steps in looking at their evidence as witnesses to their text, layout, markings, position in their original manuscripts, and the likely or probable genres of liturgical manuscript from which they came.<\/p>\n<p>Now see<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/the-bridge-of-signs\/two-example-pages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Bridge of Signs: Two Example Pages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Suggestion Box<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Do you know of other leaves from this manuscript?\u00a0 Do you recognize the hands of the scribe(s) or scribal artist(s) in other works?\u00a0 Do you know or surmise when or where the manuscript would have been made?<\/p>\n<p>We welcome your questions, comments, and suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Please leave your Comments here, <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contact-us\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us<\/a>, or visit<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Research-Group-on-Manuscript-Evidence-259443617456668\/notifications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">FaceBook Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li>our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rgme_mss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter Feed<\/a> (@rgme_mss)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please watch our blog for more discoveries, including reports of materials from the same Private Collection.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>our Blog on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manuscript Studies<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies-contents-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contents List<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We look forward to hearing from you.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11807\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11807\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11807 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Breviary-Verso-at-200-dpi-696x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Verso of a Leaf from a 35-Line, Double-Column Breviary. Circa 1300. Private Collection, reproduced by permission.\" width=\"696\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Breviary-Verso-at-200-dpi-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Breviary-Verso-at-200-dpi-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Breviary-Verso-at-200-dpi-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Breviary-Verso-at-200-dpi-768x1130.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Breviary-Verso-at-200-dpi.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Collection. Verso of a Leaf from a 35-Line, Double-Column Breviary. Circa 1300. 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