textLang
Latin (LA, LAT)French (FR, FRE)
summary
The text is from the end of Compline, in the Hours of the Virgin, Use of Sarum, in the Nunc dimittis, or Song of Simeon. Compline for the Hours of the Cross begins with the usual verse but translated into Anglo-Norman, the dialect of French still spoken by the English nobility in the fourteenth century, A lure de complie au sepulchre est cuche / Le noble corus al douz ihesu esperaunce de sauvete(cf. Dean and Boulton 1999, p. 483, no. 966). a later hand, perhaps that of one of the Hungerfords, has added the original Latin text in the lower margin, Hora complectorii datur sepulturi / corpus xpisti nobile spes vite future The Calendar (not part of the Lilly leaf) seems to point to the diocese of Ely, in the Fens, but perhaps towards the north of the diocese on the borders of Lincolnshire. That is geographically consistent with ownership by Sir John and Lady de Patteshulle, in the adjacent south-east Midlands.
note (text)
3 lines in Latin added in a late medieval cursive hand at the foot of the verso.
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
166
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
107
justification : height (mm)
125
justification : width (mm)
75
note (deco)
3-line illuminated initial on recto,illustrates Compline in the Hours of the Cross. Saint John the Evangelist, the Virgin and Saint Mary Magdalene, helped by Joseph of Arimathea, are lowering the crucified Body of Christ into the sepulchre. Joseph is shown with the hooked nose and wild beard of medieval anti-Jewish satire; the mineature also encloses a coat-of-arms, argent a fess sable between three crescents, probably those of Sir John de Patteshulle (d. 1349), of Pattishall, Northamptonshire, and of Crawley, Bedfordshireand with full-length bar border; on verso, 7-line miniature of the Trinity (Michael 1990, pls. 6–7) shows a couple kneeling in prayer approximately 53 mm. by 55 mm., in colors against a burnished gold ground.Heading in pale red, versal initials alternately in blue with red penwork or in gold with mauve penwork.
origDate : proposed date
c. 1330 or c. 1348
origPlace : proposed origin
England (East Anglia)
provenance
Offered for sale by Alan G. Thomas, London bookseller, in May 1970; given to the Lilly Library in 2006 by Rudolf and Marion Gottfried.
note (temp)
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/GottfriedMss._40https://digital-scriptorium.org/xtf3/search?rmode=digscript;smode=basic;text=gottfried;docsPerPage=1;startDoc=1;fullview=yes
