| Luttrell Psalter (British Library, add. ms. 42130, f.149r), c.1340. Images from The New Palaeographical Society, 1904. |
| So how hard is that? If all scripts were so clear, we could all recite our Latin liturgy with ease. You can test yourself by trying a transcript of the whole page. Work through the text pages. Use a pen and paper. Then test it against ours. If you are feeling really ambitious, try rendering it in plain chant. |
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