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Ant: Hear O Lord my prayer all flesh shall come unto thee. Ant: The right hand. Psalm: God, my God. Ant: Thy right hand O Lord hath received me. Ant: Deliver them O Lord. Psalm.

[Isaiah 38] I have said in the midst of my…

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O Lord make haste to help me.

Jesus Lord at the ninth hour his spirit forth did send: crying Eli and his soul to father did commend: with a lance a soldier did pierce through his tender side: the earth then trembled and the…

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[2 Chronicles 34:18-33, here called "Paralipomenon"]

...book. And he read it before the king. 19 And when he had heard the words of the law, he rent his garments: 20 And he commanded Helcias, and Ahicam the son of Saphan,…

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[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…

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[ ] 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…