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Article THE HAMILTON MANUSCRIPTS. ← Page 5 of 6 →
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The Hamilton Manuscripts.
In the second division , first and foremost , we must regret the loss to the country of a volume which came here under circumstances of the highest interest , and which we lose again , after an interval of a little more than 350 years . This is nothing less than a manuscript of the Gospels in Latin , dating from the seventh century , and written in
golden uncial characters on purple vellum . It is said that only three or four examples of such manuscripts are known , but what gives to this one so great an interest and value is the fact that it was presented to Henry VIII . by Leo X ., on the occasion of conferring on him the title of Defender of the Faith . On the first page is the following
inscription in letters of gold , surmounted by the Royal Arms of England : — " Pato servatus tibi sum , ter maxiine Princeps , Te quoque servarunt aurea fata michi ; Instaurata nitent per te sacra Dogmata heri ;
Aureus est author Christus ubique mens . " A Psalterium of the ninth century presents a peculiarity very rarely
found . It is written in double columns , on the left side the Greek and on the right the Latin ; but that which is most noteworthy about it is that the Greek text is written in Roman characters , thus helping us to a knowledge of the pronunciation of the Greek language at the time when the Byzantine Empire was in its literary glory . The date
of the execution of this venerable manuscript is discovered in the Greek inscription in capital letters prefixed , showing that it belonged to the monastery of St . Ambrose at Milan when Peter II . was Abbott , who was created in 856 and died in 897 . Another Psalter , second in interest only to the foregoing , is a folio volume dating from the
seventh century and known as the " Psalterium Sanctse Salabergge . " The writing is in uncial characters , and was done by the hand of the Abbess Saint . Salaberge , who died in 655 , for the use of the nuns of St . Jean Baptiste de Laon . In the creed are three remarkable variations from later versions—viz ., ( 1 ) natum ex Patre ; ( 2 ) omitting
Deum ex Deo before Lumen de Juumine ; ( 3 ) Spiritus tianctus ex Patre frocedens , not , ex Patre et Filio . This venerable manuscript , more than 1200 years old , is in perfect preservation .
Biblia Latina . A grand manuscript of the tenth century . An inscription informs us that it was written by Aldibaldus the Monk , by command of Gulielmus the Abbot . The former name leaves little room for doubt that the manuscript is of English origin . The once warmly-disputed text of the three Heavenly witnesses , John , Epist . 1 .,
c . 5 , v . 7 , finds no place here in the text , though a much later hand has inserted it in the margin . A copy of the Gospels in Latin of the eighth century , from the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Hamilton Manuscripts.
In the second division , first and foremost , we must regret the loss to the country of a volume which came here under circumstances of the highest interest , and which we lose again , after an interval of a little more than 350 years . This is nothing less than a manuscript of the Gospels in Latin , dating from the seventh century , and written in
golden uncial characters on purple vellum . It is said that only three or four examples of such manuscripts are known , but what gives to this one so great an interest and value is the fact that it was presented to Henry VIII . by Leo X ., on the occasion of conferring on him the title of Defender of the Faith . On the first page is the following
inscription in letters of gold , surmounted by the Royal Arms of England : — " Pato servatus tibi sum , ter maxiine Princeps , Te quoque servarunt aurea fata michi ; Instaurata nitent per te sacra Dogmata heri ;
Aureus est author Christus ubique mens . " A Psalterium of the ninth century presents a peculiarity very rarely
found . It is written in double columns , on the left side the Greek and on the right the Latin ; but that which is most noteworthy about it is that the Greek text is written in Roman characters , thus helping us to a knowledge of the pronunciation of the Greek language at the time when the Byzantine Empire was in its literary glory . The date
of the execution of this venerable manuscript is discovered in the Greek inscription in capital letters prefixed , showing that it belonged to the monastery of St . Ambrose at Milan when Peter II . was Abbott , who was created in 856 and died in 897 . Another Psalter , second in interest only to the foregoing , is a folio volume dating from the
seventh century and known as the " Psalterium Sanctse Salabergge . " The writing is in uncial characters , and was done by the hand of the Abbess Saint . Salaberge , who died in 655 , for the use of the nuns of St . Jean Baptiste de Laon . In the creed are three remarkable variations from later versions—viz ., ( 1 ) natum ex Patre ; ( 2 ) omitting
Deum ex Deo before Lumen de Juumine ; ( 3 ) Spiritus tianctus ex Patre frocedens , not , ex Patre et Filio . This venerable manuscript , more than 1200 years old , is in perfect preservation .
Biblia Latina . A grand manuscript of the tenth century . An inscription informs us that it was written by Aldibaldus the Monk , by command of Gulielmus the Abbot . The former name leaves little room for doubt that the manuscript is of English origin . The once warmly-disputed text of the three Heavenly witnesses , John , Epist . 1 .,
c . 5 , v . 7 , finds no place here in the text , though a much later hand has inserted it in the margin . A copy of the Gospels in Latin of the eighth century , from the