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Leaf From An Antiphonal, Spain, Recto, Unknown Dec 1649

Leaf From An Antiphonal, Spain, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Antiphonals originally included only the antiphons sung before each Psalm during the Mass. They later came to contain the sung portions of the Divine Office as well as music and text for the entire Breviary. This particular leaf, from the Temporal, contains sections from the feast of the Ascension.


Leaves From A Gradual, Italy, Recto, Unknown Dec 1599

Leaves From A Gradual, Italy, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

All Medieval churches were required to own both a Gradual and an Antiphonal. The recto contains a small mark in the right margin, next to verse four of Psalm 67 to signal fit reverentia, or 'all bow.' The Roman pagination in the upper right corner of both leaves (CXXXVIII and XCIX) indicates them as coming from pages 138 and 99 of the full Gradual.


Leaf From An Antiphonal, Spain, Recto, Unknown Dec 1599

Leaf From An Antiphonal, Spain, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

As the musical counterpart to the Breviary, Antiphonals contain the music and chant necessary for the Divine Office.


Leaf From An Antiphonal, Spain, Verso, Unknown Dec 1599

Leaf From An Antiphonal, Spain, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

As the musical counterpart to the Breviary, Antiphonals contain the music and chant necessary for the Divine Office. The verso of this leaf contains a catchword in black in the lower right corner indicating it was the last leaf in a quire.


Leaves From A Gradual, Italy, Verso, Unknown Dec 1599

Leaves From A Gradual, Italy, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

All Medieval churches were required to own both a Gradual and an Antiphonal.


Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Folio 5, Verso, Unknown Dec 1549

Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Folio 5, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Miracles of Mary, or the Ta'amra Maryam, constitutes one of the most prominent texts in Ethiopian devotional and liturgical practice. The text traditionally consists of between thirty and three hundred miracles said to have been carried out by Mary during her lifetime.


Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Part 1, Unknown Dec 1549

Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Part 1, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Miracles of Mary, or the Ta'amra Maryam, constitutes one of the most prominent texts in Ethiopian devotional and liturgical practice. The text traditionally consists of between thirty and three hundred miracles said to have been carried out by Mary during her lifetime.


Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Part 3, Unknown Dec 1549

Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Part 3, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Miracles of Mary, or the Ta'amra Maryam, constitutes one of the most prominent texts in Ethiopian devotional and liturgical practice. The text traditionally consists of between thirty and three hundred miracles said to have been carried out by Mary during her lifetime.


Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Part 5, Unknown Dec 1549

Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Part 5, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Miracles of Mary, or the Ta'amra Maryam, constitutes one of the most prominent texts in Ethiopian devotional and liturgical practice. The text traditionally consists of between thirty and three hundred miracles said to have been carried out by Mary during her lifetime.


Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Folio 2, Recto, Unknown Dec 1549

Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Folio 2, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Miracles of Mary, or the Ta'amra Maryam, constitutes one of the most prominent texts in Ethiopian devotional and liturgical practice. The text traditionally consists of between thirty and three hundred miracles said to have been carried out by Mary during her lifetime.


Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Folio 2, Verso, Unknown Dec 1549

Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Folio 2, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Miracles of Mary, or the Ta'amra Maryam, constitutes one of the most prominent texts in Ethiopian devotional and liturgical practice. The text traditionally consists of between thirty and three hundred miracles said to have been carried out by Mary during her lifetime.


Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Folio 2, Recto, Unknown Dec 1549

Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Folio 2, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Miracles of Mary, or the Ta'amra Maryam, constitutes one of the most prominent texts in Ethiopian devotional and liturgical practice. The text traditionally consists of between thirty and three hundred miracles said to have been carried out by Mary during her lifetime.


Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Part 2, Unknown Dec 1549

Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Part 2, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Miracles of Mary, or the Ta'amra Maryam, constitutes one of the most prominent texts in Ethiopian devotional and liturgical practice. The text traditionally consists of between thirty and three hundred miracles said to have been carried out by Mary during her lifetime.


Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Part 4, Unknown Dec 1549

Miracles Of Mary, Ethiopia, Part 4, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Miracles of Mary, or the Ta'amra Maryam, constitutes one of the most prominent texts in Ethiopian devotional and liturgical practice. The text traditionally consists of between thirty and three hundred miracles said to have been carried out by Mary during her lifetime.


Leaf Ending Compline, Hours Of The Holy Spirit, Angels Presenting The Cross, To Preface The Hours Of The Cross, France, Verso, Unknown Dec 1529

Leaf Ending Compline, Hours Of The Holy Spirit, Angels Presenting The Cross, To Preface The Hours Of The Cross, France, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf is from a prayerbook which did not include the Hours of the Virgin. The originating manuscript was, therefore, not a Book of Hours, but it included some texts commonly found in Horae.


Leaf Ending Compline, Hours Of The Holy Spirit (Prayerbook And Benedictional For Cistercian Nuns), France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1529

Leaf Ending Compline, Hours Of The Holy Spirit (Prayerbook And Benedictional For Cistercian Nuns), France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf is from a prayerbook which did not include the Hours of the Virgin. The originating manuscript was, therefore, not a Book of Hours, but it included some texts commonly found in Horae.


Pages From The Past. History Of The Written Word. Various Leaves - No. 29 Collection Of Minor Classical Authors, Aldine Press Dec 1515

Pages From The Past. History Of The Written Word. Various Leaves - No. 29 Collection Of Minor Classical Authors, Aldine Press

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

No abstract provided.


Pages From The Past. History Of The Written Word. Various Leaves - No. 30 Nova Legenda Angliae, John De Tynemouth Dec 1515

Pages From The Past. History Of The Written Word. Various Leaves - No. 30 Nova Legenda Angliae, John De Tynemouth

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

No abstract provided.


Leaf From Gospel Lessons And Opening Of Passion According To John, France, Verso, Unknown Dec 1504

Leaf From Gospel Lessons And Opening Of Passion According To John, France, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Betrayal of Christ illustrates the Passion text. In this metalcut, Judas, one of the disciples, kisses Christ's right cheek, a prearranged signal that reveals Jesus' identity to the Roman soldiers who seize him.


Hours Of The Virgin, None, Presentation In The Temple, Paris, France, Verso, Unknown Dec 1504

Hours Of The Virgin, None, Presentation In The Temple, Paris, France, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Sext of the Hours of the Virgin was to be read midday. Typically, None of the Hours of the Virgin is accompanies, as it is here, by an image of the Presentation in the Temple. The Virgin and Joseph have brought the baby Christ into the temple to show that he belonged to God.


Leaf From Gospel Lessons And Opening Of Passion According To John, France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1504

Leaf From Gospel Lessons And Opening Of Passion According To John, France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Mark sits at the opening of the Lesson with his symbol, the lion, in a woodcut designed by Jean Pichore. Mark, in front of a colonnade, holds his feather pen in the air while receiving his Gospel Book from his pouncing, cat-like lion. The borders around the recto depict a hunting scene in which men in contemporary costumes, blowing horns and carrying lances, chase through the forest after a handsome stag.


Hours Of The Virgin, None, Presentation In The Temple, Paris, France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1504

Hours Of The Virgin, None, Presentation In The Temple, Paris, France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Sext of the Hours of the Virgin was to be read midday. Typically, None of the Hours of the Virgin is accompanies, as it is here, by an image of the Presentation in the Temple. The Virgin and Joseph have brought the baby Christ into the temple to show that he belonged to God.


Leaf Ending The Penitential Psalms (142) And Opening Litany, Paris, France, Verso, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaf Ending The Penitential Psalms (142) And Opening Litany, Paris, France, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Litany typically follows the Penitential Psalms, and invokes aid from God and the saints. Litany is organized in accordance to a hierarchy starting with God, the Son of God, the Holy Ghost, the Virgin Mary, the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Rachael; Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, and Virgins.


Leaf From Lauds, Hours Of The Virgin, France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaf From Lauds, Hours Of The Virgin, France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Lauds continues with Psalms of praise to God.


Psalter With Calendar, Litany And Alphabetical Index Of The Psalms, Italy, Folio 11, Recto, Unknown Dec 1499

Psalter With Calendar, Litany And Alphabetical Index Of The Psalms, Italy, Folio 11, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This portable Psalter is an example of the growing personal nature of worship in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. As it easily fits into the palm of one's hand, this Psalter likely resided on its owner's possession throughout the day, ready for prayers of the hour.


Poem, Have You Not Hard Of Floryda?, Unknown, Thomas Hallock Dec 1499

Poem, Have You Not Hard Of Floryda?, Unknown, Thomas Hallock

Early Visions Bucket

"One of the earliest poetic references to Florida appears in an anonymous and undated ballad, entitled 'the preme Rose in the grene forest.'"


Leaf From Vespers And Compline, Hours Of The Holy Spirit, France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaf From Vespers And Compline, Hours Of The Holy Spirit, France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf is rubricated in blue ink rather than in the standard red. The blue ink was derived from lapis lazuli, an expensive mineral that adds a luxurious appearance. Short exclamations such as antiphones, responses and versicles are written smaller to distinguish them from the other parts of the text.


Leaf From Lauds, Hours Of The Virgin, France, Verso, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaf From Lauds, Hours Of The Virgin, France, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Lauds continues with Psalms of praise to God. The verso continues from the end of Psalm 148 to the end of Psalm 149.


Leaves From A Missal, Eastern France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaves From A Missal, Eastern France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

A Missal is the liturgical book containing the prayers and readings for the celebration of Mass.


Leaves From A Gradual, France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaves From A Gradual, France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Both the services of Mass and Divine Office required musical chant, which formed additional volumes referred to as choir books. The Gradual became the musical counterpart to the Missal, the Antiphonal to the Breviary. Graduals contained the music necessary for the Mass ceremony.