PRAEDICA VERBUM, ARGUE OBSECRA2 Timothy 4 ELOQUENTIAE S.Nullus in orbe locus quem non ut apicula floremAppetitis, Dium voce sonante melos,Et stimulos; et mella datis; configite mentesDum que dextra tulit spicula, mella ferat.Quod si fors stimulo mors est obeunda relictoMella tota, Dei est mens aditura sinum. Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season:Continue reading “Recueil dominicain du couvent Sainte-Catherine-de-Sienne de Douai, Folio 48r”
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Concordantia caritatis – Saturday after the Third Sunday in Lent
Transcriptions of inscriptions from the Index of Medieval Art; translations are my own, rough as they may be, if not from source in public domain.
Recueil dominicain du couvent Sainte-Catherine-de-Sienne de Douai, Folio 47r
CUM SILENT ASTRA, CANTAMUS DEOORATIONI NOCTURNAE .S.Luna pruinosas cum senior explicat umbras,Et pluit aethereo languidus orbe sopor:Surgimus arrectisque animis in cantica, palmasTollimus, et querula possimus astra prece.Nuntiat opposito galli sonus, aethere solem,Nos canimus nostris irradiasse plagis.Debueras pictor philomelam appingere gallo,Indicat hic tenebras, iunctus uterque diem.
Nihil sub sole novum 