Biblioteca medicea laurenziana, MS. Plut. VI.23 – Matthew 2

Matthew 2.4-6 – Herod Consults the Chief Priests and Scribes

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Matthew 2.7 – The Magi Called to Herod

Folio 6r

Matthew 2.7-18 – The Magi before Herod

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Matthew 2.9-10 – The Magi Journey to Bethlehem and See the Star

Folio 6v

Matthew 2.11 – The Adoration of the Magi

Folio 6v

Matthew 2.12 – The Return of the Magi

Folio 6v

Matthew 2.13 – The Second Dream of Joseph

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Matthew 2.14-15 – The Flight into Egypt

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Matthew 2.16-18 – The Massacre of the Innocents

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Sources
Digital Facsimile / Index of Medieval Art
Le Tétraévangile de la Laurentienne by Tania Velmans.

Saturday in the Fourth Week of Lent

Isaiah 49.8-15, prophesies of Christ

John 8.12-20, Christ Teaching in the Treasury of the Temple

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.

Explanation of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, holydays and festivals throughout the ecclesiastical year, to which are added the lives of many saints by Leonard Goffiné (Pustet, 1880).

Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays (Benziger, 1896).

Daily Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Holy Faith and on the Lives of Our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Saints by Alonso De Andrade.

Art

Concordantia caritatis, Morgan Library, MS M.1045, fol. 64v

Station Church

originally San Lorenzo fuori le mura, Crux Stationalis Video, then San Nicola in Carcere, Crux Stationalis Video

Music

Medieval Music Database

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Concordantia caritatis – Friday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent

LAZARUS
LAZARE UENI FORAS
Haec cum dixisset, voce magna clamavit : Lazare, veni foras.
When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.
John 11.43
SI HIC FUISSES NON ESSET MORTUUS
Maria ergo, cum venisset ubi erat Jesus, videns eum, cecidit ad pedes ejus, et dicit ei : Domine, si fuisses hic, non esset mortuus frater meus.
When Mary therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing him, she fell down at his feet, and saith to him: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
John 11.32
DATE UITE SANUM DE FUNERE QUADRIDUANUM. SIC NOS DE MORTE UIUIFICAS ANIME
SAPIENCIE .18.
TU ES DOMINE QUI UITE ET MORTIS
Tu es enim, Domine, qui vitae et mortis habes potestatem, et deducis ad portas mortis, et reducis.
For it is thou, O Lord, that hast power of life and death, and leadest down to the gates of death, and bringest back again:
Wisdom 16.13
IOB .10.
UITAM ET MISERICORDIAM TRIBUISTI MICHI
Vitam et misericordiam tribuisti mihi, et visitatio tua custodivit spiritum meum.
Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Job 10.12
 IONE .2°.
SUBLEUABIS DE CORRUPTIONE UITAM MEAM
Ad extrema montium descendi; terrae vectes concluserunt me in aeternum : et sublevabis de corruptione vitam meam, Domine Deus meus.
I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
Jonah 2.7
REGUM .2°.
DOMINUS MORTIFICAT ET UIUIFICAT
Dominus mortificat et vivificat, deducit ad inferos et reducit.
The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell and bringeth back again.
1 Kings 2.6
HELYAS
SAREPTE NATUM DAT HELIAS UIUIVICATUM
3 Kings 17
REDDITUR HIC UITE CUM TETIGIT OSSA PROPHETE
4 Kings 13
LUCINIA AVIS
CANTU LUCINIA FRUCTIFICABIT OUA
HYRUNDO
PULLOS HYRUNDO CREAT QUAS YMAGINACIO FORMAT

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.