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Recto Translation:

[Psalms 137:3-8] ...shalt multiply strength in my soul. Let all the Kings of the earth O Lord confess to thee: because they have heard all the words of thy mouth. And let them sing in the ways of our Lord: because great is the…

Recto Translation:

[ ] Sunday of the Passion [ ]

Abroad the regal banners fly,
now shines the Cross's mystery:
upon it Life did death endure,
and yet by death did life procure.
O lovely and refulgent Tree.

Who, wounded with a direful…

France; Late 15th Century. Latin Text; Lettre Bâtarde.

This composite text includes the Dialogues of Pope Gregory I (St. Gregory the Great, 540-604 A.D.), which are largely autobiographical, and his writing on the lives and miracles of the early…

Italy; Late 15th Century. Latin Text; Humanistic Book Hand. This text on the Sententiae of Peter Lombard by St. Thomas Aquinas, the "Angelic Doctor," was the forerunner of the latter's great work Summa Theologica. It is most unusual to find the…

Recto Translation: ...made trial of the manageableness of their ships by mock sea-fights. Such exercises, both by sea and land, without the city prepared their minds and bodies for war. The city itself was all bustle with warlike preparations,…

France (Limoges); Middle 15th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script.

The provenance of this manuscript is clearly designated as Limoges because of the inclusion of certain parts of the masses proper to this diocese, and because of the…

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[Deuteronomy 26:9] ...flowing with milk and honey. [ ]

[Deuteronomy 26:16-19] This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these commandments and judgments: and to keep and fulfil them with all thy heart, and with all…

Recto Translation: O rarest virgin pure, Of all that meekest waste, Discharged of our sin, Make thou us meek, and chaste.
Grant that our life be pure, Make safe for us the way, That while we Jesus see, Our joy may last for ay.
To God the father…

France; Middle 15th Century. Latin Text; Lettre de Somme. Jerome, the father of the Latin Church and translator of the Bible, shows in his writing his active participation in the controversies of his day (c. 332 to 420 A.D.). With the frequent use of…

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[Psalms 96:7-12; Psalms 97:1-9]

Adore him, all you his angels: 8 Sion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Juda rejoiced, because of thy judgments, O Lord. 9 For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: thou art…