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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Zefiro on Thursday 25 December 25 16:32 GMT (UK)
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My best wishes to all of you.
These 2 bits of Latin were found on an old sheet of parchment filled with biblical verses. I suspect they were 'left-overs' from an earlier use of this parchment, so probably an incomplete palimpsest.
Is anyone able to read them and tell what there all about?
I have little experience with this kind of writing.
I'll be very grateful.
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second one
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The second extract seems to read …
... medicinalibus sunt instituta
ieiunijs P(er) ...
An online search suggests this is a liturgical text from a Catholic missal. It offers an early Norwegian source, Missale Nidrosiense, 1519 (though perhaps the text itself occurs in other missals as well?)
https://www.bokselskap.no/boker/missale/part1
(scroll down to Feria Quinta - Secreta)
I haven't tackled your first excerpt yet, but maybe it's from a similar source?
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The first extract - or something very similar - does appear in the same source, under Feria Tertia, just above the next heading Feria Quarta ...
[Complenda S]anctificationibus tuis, omnipotens deus, et vitia nostra curentur et remedia nobis sempiterna proueniant. Per dominum.
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Bookbox,
thank you for your answer. Very helpful, as always. I have to admit that I was surprised that both pieces were liturgical as well. I really thought they didn't belong on the page.
The rest of the page was a collection of biblical texts mixed with psalms. Together with this pieces, I think the whole forms a kind of blueprint for a Holy Mass.
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Certainly looks like it. If you ever need help with difficult liturgical MSS, there are some very good people in this Facebook group ...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1557478997849423