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The Vespasian Psalter (London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A I) is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated psalter decorated in a partly Insular style produced in the second or third quarter of the 8th century.
The Vespasian Psalter is a wonderful witness to the ongoing processes of creation, addition and loss in a medieval manuscript. Its story begins in the second quarter of the 8th century, around the time Bede was completing his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (731).
Mar 7, 2020 · Latin, with Anglo-Saxon (Mercian) interlinear translation. Editorial matter in English. "Text ... transcribed from MLAA rotograph no. 332, British Museum ms. Cotton Vespasian A.I." Contains Bible Psalms and other items, some of them pertaining to Catholic liturgy.
The Vespasian Psalter is the outstanding surviving example of that technique from the 9th century. In the next century the Lindisfarne Gospels, written in Latin circa 700, were glossed in Old English circa 950. Read More.
The Interlinear gloss of the Vespasian Psalter (in British Museum MS. Cotton Vespasian A. 1) is generally regarded as a Mercian text; indeed, it seems to be our best written record of the one Old English dialect which comes closest of any to being the direct ancestor of the standard language of modern England.
Apr 14, 2019 · The Vespasian Psalter (London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A I) is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated psalter decorated in a partly Insular style produced in the second or third quarter of the 8th century.
THE VESPASIAN PSALTER AND THE OLD ENGLISH CHARTER HANDS. BY SHERMAN M. KUHN. WOLFGANG KELLER seems to have been the first scholar to notice certain unusual forms of the letters g and t which appear in the early Mercian charters. His ac- count of these forms, which he looked upon as characteristically Mercian, is as follows :1.
