Yep, this is how I spend my money. In a 700 year-old piece of ink and animal skin. Don't take financial advice from me, dear friends.
But seriously, I am over the moon with this! It is an English 14th century Medieval illuminated manuscript leaf, previously belonging to a psalter book commissioned for private use. Due to it being the official language of the church, it is written in Latin. The details in the marginalia, miniature, capital letters and line fillers are an absolute delight. As well as, of course, the wonder of this Gothic calligraphy, which I can safely assume was written with iron gall ink.
This manuscript leaf was acquired from Phillip J. Pirages: Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (www.pirages.com). Their book selection and customer service is as high quality as a dinner cooked with spices during the 14th century.
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Yep, this is how I spend my money. In a 700 year-old piece of ink and animal skin. Don't take financial advice from me, dear friends.
But seriously, I am over the moon with this! It is an English 14th century Medieval illuminated manuscript leaf, previously belonging to a psalter book commissioned for private use. Due to it being the official language of the church, it is written in Latin. The details in the marginalia, miniature, capital letters and line fillers are an absolute delight. As well as, of course, the wonder of this Gothic calligraphy, which I can safely assume was written with iron gall ink.
This manuscript leaf was acquired from Phillip J. Pirages: Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (www.pirages.com). Their book selection and customer service is as high quality as a dinner cooked with spices during the 14th century.
Find Me On:
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Medieval Calligraphy Tutorials:
1- Introduction: Sunday Scriptorium Ep. 1: Intro (best pens...
2- Gothic Textura Quadrata: Gothic Textura Quadrata (medieval calligra...
3- Uncial: Uncial Calligraphy (medieval script tutori...
Music Credit:
Medieval Loop One by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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Marked by Alexander Nakarada
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Created by Maydi Diaz
Here it is: (I will highlight what’s written on the manuscript leaf.)
In finem, filiis Core, pro arcanis. Psalmus.
1 Deus noster refugium et virtus ;
adjutor in tribulationibus quæ invenerunt nosnimis.
2 Propterea non timebimus dum turbabitur terra,
et transferentur montes in cor maris.
3 Sonuerunt, et turbatæ sunt aquæ eorum ;
conturbati sunt montes in fortitudine ejus.
4 Fluminis impetus lætificat civitatem Dei :_
sanctificavit tabernaculum suum Altissimus.
5 Deus in medio ejus, non commovebitur ;
adjuvabit eam Deus mane diluculo.
6 Conturbatæ sunt gentes, et inclinata sunt regna :
dedit vocem suam, mota est terra.
7 Dominus virtutum nobiscum ;
susceptor noster Deus Jacob.
8 Venite, et videte opera Domini,
quæ posuit prodigia super terram,
9 auferens bella usque ad finem terræ.
Arcum conteret, et confringet arma,
et scuta comburet igni.
10 Vacate, et videte quoniam ego sum Deus ;
exaltabor in gentibus, et exaltabor in terra.
11 Dominus virtutum nobiscum ;
susceptor noster Deus Jacob.
Here’s the translation:
Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden things. A psalm.
1 God is our hope and strength:
a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved:
and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell:
and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.
4 The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God:
the holy place of the tabernacle of the most Highest.
5 God is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be removed:
God shall help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved:
but God hath shewed his voice, and the earth shall melt away.
7 The Lord of hosts is with us:
the God of Jacob is our refuge.
8 O come hither, and behold the works of the Lord:
what destruction he hath brought upon the earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease in all the world:
he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder,
and burneth the chariots in the fire.
10 Be still then, and know that I am God:
I will be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth.
11 The Lord of hosts is with us:
the God of Jacob is our refuge.