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some Latin sentences
« on: Thursday 25 December 25 16:32 GMT (UK) »
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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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Re: some Latin sentences
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 25 December 25 16:34 GMT (UK) »
second one

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Re: some Latin sentences
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 25 December 25 17:31 GMT (UK) »
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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Re: some Latin sentences
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 25 December 25 17:39 GMT (UK) »
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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Re: some Latin sentences
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 25 December 25 19:03 GMT (UK) »
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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« Reply #5 on: Thursday 25 December 25 19:52 GMT (UK) »
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