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May 6, 2023 • 7 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Some #medieval English kings' consecrations were multilingual, too. This 1000-year-old Old English oath claims it's "letter-for-letter what Archbishop Dunstan [d. 988] gave our lord at Kingston the day he was consecrated king." bl.uk/collection-ite… Image
The king promised:
1. The Church of God and all the people would have true peace.
2. He would forbid acts of robbery and other bad things.
3. He would uphold justice and mercy.
This has been translated and analyzed by Mary Clayton: jstor.org/stable/4451097… ImageImage
The following text (prob added by Wulfstan d. 1023), further specifies that the king should condemn no one; protect widows, orphans, foreigners; prevent theft, adultery, incest, witches (wiccan), etc; feed the needy; have old and wise counsellors.
bl.uk/manuscripts/Vi… Image
Meanwhile, a Latin liturgy for a pre-Conquest coronation appears in the Anderson Pontifical, which was rediscovered in a Scottish stable in 1970. (The manuscript looks pretty good for a 1000-year-old, under the circumstances.)
bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu… Image
The liturgy contains many of the same elements that we saw in today's #Coronation , although in a different order: oil, ring💍, sword⚔️, crown 👑, sceptre, rod... "Zadok the Priest" was sung then, too blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus… ImageImageImageImage
The Anderson Pontifical also had instructions for crowning a queen. (This manuscript may have been made at Canterbury c. 1023, although some argue it dates back to Archbishop Æthelgar's day (988-990).
bl.uk/manuscripts/Vi… Image
The Kyrie (or other Greek text) is not explicitly mentioned in accounts of early English coronations (like Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Life of St Oswald), but the Anderson Pontifical has the Kyrie on the 2nd surviving page plus this handy Greek alphabet: bl.uk/manuscripts/Vi… Image

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May 26, 2020
To celebrate Bede’s heavenly birthday (he died 26 May 735), I’ve been thinking about manuscripts that were made at his monastery at Wearmouth + Jarrow and that are now available online.
wdl.org/en/item/20150/…
#collectionsunited
Manuscripts made at Bede’s monasteries during his lifetime include
St Cuthbert Gospel bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
Codex Amiatinus wdl.org/en/item/20150/
Bible bits bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu… + bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
Gospel fragments psalter.library.uu.nl/page?p=209&res… +
iiif.durham.ac.uk/index.html?man…
Manuscripts of Bede's writings made at Wearmouth-Jarrow:
Earliest copy of Bede's Ecclesiastical History (@theULSpecColl Kk.5.16) cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-KK-000…
Another Ecclesiastical History bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
Bede's Commentary on Proverbs (Bodley 819) digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/15af…
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Dec 1, 2018
Since I can't resist an #AdventCalendar, I'm going to try to do an alphabet from Anglo-Saxon manuscripts from now until Christmas. First up:

A is for 'appropinquabat' (approached). From a prayerbook that was owned-- and possibly made-- by women blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…
B is for beatus (blessed). From a Psalter made about 1000 years ago (Arundel MS 155, f. 12r).
You can see a video showing how to make this page-- from cutting your quills to gilding-- thanks to @LovettPatricia bl.uk/medieval-engli…
#PolonskyPre1200
#BLAngloSaxons Golden initial 'B', decorated with interlace, coloured panels, beasts' heads and colourful foliage.
C is for 'cantate' (chant! or sing!) We can see how an 11th-century scribe translated this word, in an Old English gloss just above the Latin: 'Singath!'

From a fabulous mid-11th-century Psalter:
bl.uk/manuscripts/Vi…
#BLAngloSaxons
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