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Vespasian Psalter. King David with his musicians; start of Psalm 27. 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.
Mar 7, 2020 · The Vespasian psalter : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. Publication date. 1965. Topics. English language Old English, ca. 450-1100 Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Catholic Church, Catholic Church -- Liturgy, Bible. Psalms, Bible.
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).
Vespasian B. vi (Bede's Martyrologium Poeticum), in which no trace of the two letter-forms can be seen.8 Thompson did not mention the possibility of Mercian influence in the gloss to the Vespasian Psalter. His opinion of Mercian scribes in general was very similar to Keller's, however, for he said, 'if one kingdom is to
Dec 2, 2020 · 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.
VESPASIAN PSALTER By KENNETH SISAM N 'From Canterbury to Lichfield" Professor S. M. Kuhn discusses five early Anglo-Saxon manuscripts with a view to establishing their place of origin: they are the Vespasian Psalter, the Golden Gospels at Stockholm, Cotton Tiberius C ii, the Book of Cerne, and B.M. Royal i E vI.
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. It contains an interlinear gloss in Old English which is the oldest extant English translation o
