I am currently near the tail end of my medieval studies master program. (My God, how time flies!) Due to this, I haven’t had time to write for this blog in a long time due to school and working on my fiction projects. I want to get back to posting here more. However, May is exams month and I have a lot of studying to get done.
It’s a good thing I am a medieval studies major and this is a blog about medieval things!
I have a palaeography exam this month and to study for it, I’ve been transcribing sections of medieval manuscripts. Today I worked on transcribing folio 3v of Cotton MS Nero D VII.
Here is the image from the manuscript:
And here is my transcription (as seen in the manuscript line by line):
- Gloriosus Rex Offa Mercio[*] tenens
- gubernacula. corpore beati Albam pa-
- troni nostri de terra lenato finidauit
- istud monasteriu’ . possessionib(us) q(ibus) ac multis liber
- tatib(us) ditaiut magnifice . ac non multo post Ro-
- mam petiit corporalit’ . ut sicut temporalib(us) & re-
- galib(us) dignitatib(us) hoc monasteru’i ditauit in an-
- glia : ita illud nobilitaret priuilegiis impetratis
- a sede apostolica . Et quia repperit dii’m papam
- Adrianum videlicet prima sibi fauorabilem . exultaunt spi
And here is my transcription cleaned up a bit:
Gloriosus Rex Offa Mercio[*] tenens gubernacula. corpore beati Albam patroni nostri de terra lenato finidauit istud monasteriu’ . possessionib(us) q(ibus) ac multis liber tatib(us) ditaiut magnifice . ac non multo post Romam petiit corporalit’ . ut sicut temporalib(us) & regalib(us) dignitatib(us) hoc monasteru’i ditauit in anglia : ita illud nobilitaret priuilegiis impetratis a sede apostolica . Et quia repperit dii’m papam Adrianum videlicet prima sibi fauorabilem . exultaunt spi
Perhaps later I will come back and translate it! (If I have the time of course!)
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