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| Mozarabic liturgy, 10th century (British Library, add. ms. 30844). All images by permission of the British Library. | |
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This page comes from a 10th century liturgical work of offices and masses from Mozarabic Spain. This refers to the Christian communities that survived in the Muslim part of Spain after the Saracen invasions. The manuscript formerly belonged to the monastery of San Domingo at Silos. The script is Visigothic minuscule. The text of this page is Biblical, the description of the Annunciation, Luke 1:26-36, from the Latin Vulgate Bible. |
| The text of the Vulgate Bible can be obtained from Biblia Sacra Vulgata (1969), among other editions. There is a searchable version on the web at the Multi-lingual Bible site or a plain text version at Vulgate (Latin Bible) Index.. There is a detailed transcription of part of this page, and discussion of the script, in Brown (1990). | |
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