Illuminated Book of Hours Leaf with Borders on Two Sides--Hours of the Cross

Piteously His head was pricked with the crown of thorn, To the place of pain His cross was on His shoulders born.

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Stunning  manuscript leaf with luminous bar borders on both sides.  Leaf from a  medieval Book of Hours beautifully illuminated on both sides in the fifteenth century.  18 lines of text on each side written in Latin with brown-black ink (and red rubrics) in gothic script on vellum.  3 embossed illuminated double-line and 4 single-line highly ornate initials in burnished gold, red, and blue.  Beautiful bar border divided in 2 triangles.  Verso is green with embossed gold floral design on one half of border & blue floral design with pink and blue acanthus leaves on the other half.  Recto is blue with embossed gold floral design on one half & red flowers with blue and gold acanthus leaves on the other half.   The text is from the "Hours of the Cross," containing the final prayer of Matins, Prime, Terce and the rubric for Sext.

Size: 178 x 115 mm (approx 7.0 x 4.5 inches); justification: 95 x 90 mm.   

$620                                                       #IMC5142

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Conclusio Horae Oremus: Domine Iesu Christe fili Dei vivi, pone passionem, crucem, et mortem tuam inter iudicium tuum et animam meam, nunc, et in hora mortis meae: et mihi largiri digneris gratiam et misericordiam: vivis et defunctis requiem et veniam: Ecclesiae tuae pacem et concordiam, et nobis peccatoribus vitam et gloriam sempiternam. Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo patre in unitate spiritus sancti Deu per omnia saecula saeculorum. Ad Primam.  Hora prima Dominum ducunt ad Pilatum, A falsis testibus multum accusatum, Colaphis percutiunt manibus ligatum, Vultum Dei conspuunt lumen caeli gratum.  Ad Tertiam Crucifige clamitant hora tertiarum: Illusus induitur veste purpurarum: Caput eius pungitur corona spinarum. Crucem portat humeris ad locum poenarum.

Conclusion of the above Hours. Amen. Let us pray: O Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the living God, set Thy passion, cross, and death between Thy judgment and my soul, now, and in the hour of my death and vouchsafe to grant unto me grace and mercy: to the living and the dead rest and pardon: to Thy Church peace and concord, and to us sinners life and glory everlasting, who livest and reignest, God, with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without end.  Amen.  At Prime, (the first hour of the day). Hymn: They our Lord to Pilate led at the hour of prime, And by witnesses full false accused much of crime, His hands tied they beat Him with fists in great despite, They upon God's face do spit the heaven's grateful light. At Terce (the third hour of the day: 9:00 am).  At the third hour of the day they crucify Him cry, In a purple robe clad Him more to mock thereby, Piteously His head was pricked with the crown of thorn, To the place of pain His cross was on His shoulders born (English translation).

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