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the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord

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Beautiful manuscript leaf from a French (likely Paris) medieval Book of Hours beautifully illuminated on both sides in the fifteenth century (c. 1470).  16 lines of text on each side written in Latin with brown-black ink in gothic script on vellum.  11 embossed illuminated single-line ornate initials in burnished gold, red, and blue with white tracery & 5 line fillers in burnished gold, red, and blue with white tracery. 2 additional small blue and red  flowers within the text.    Vibrant gold and blue foliate border on one side incorporating red and blue flowers and blue and gold acanthus leaves.  The text is from psalm 101.  Condition is near fine with very slight staining. 

Size: 129 x 180 mm (approx 5.2 x 7.2 inches); justification: 100 x 119 mm.   

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quia cinerem tamquam panem manducavi, et poculum meum cum fletu miscebam, a facie iræ et indignationis tuæ: quia elevans allisisti me.  Dies mei sicut umbra declinaverunt, et ego sicut fœnum arui.  Tu autem, Domine, in æternum permanes, et memoriale tuum in generationem et generationem.  Tu exsurgens misereberis Sion, quia tempus miserendi ejus, quia venit tempus: quoniam placuerunt servis tuis lapides ejus, et terræ ejus miserebuntur. Et timebunt gentes nomen tuum, Domine, et omnes reges terræ gloriam tuam:quia ædificavit Dominus Sion, et videbitur in gloria sua.  Respexit in orationem humilium et non sprevit precem eorum.  Scribantur hæc in generatione altera, et populus qui creabitur laudabit Dominum.  Quia prospexit de excelso sancto suo; Dominus de cælo in terram

I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down. My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass. But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations. Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.  For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof. And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.  For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory. He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.  Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord... (English translation)