Popular treatises on science written during the Middle Ages, in Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English / Edited from the original manuscripts by Thomas Wright.

  • Thomas Wright
Date:
1841
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Credit: Popular treatises on science written during the Middle Ages, in Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English / Edited from the original manuscripts by Thomas Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANGLO-SAXON MANUAL JLINCOJ L1JU OF AST If 0 N 0 M Y. TC wolde eac gyf lc dorste pluccian sum ge-hwmde andgyt of tore bee j?e Beda se snotera lareow ge-sette 3 gade- rode of manegra wisra lareowa bocum, be tos geares ymb- renum fram annginne middan-eardes, tot nis to spelle, ac elles to raedenne J?am pe hit licab. Witodlice pa pa se aelmihtiga scyppend Jfisne middan-eard ge-sceop, pa cwaeb he “ Ge-weorSe leoht,” j leoht waes )?aer rihte ge-worden. pa ge-seah God p p leoht waes good, j to-daelde p leoht fram ]?am J?eostrum, j het p leoht daeg, j pa 3eostro niht, 3 waes pa ge-teald aefen and merien to anum daege. On 3am ojmim daege ge-sceop God heofenan, seo 3e is ge-haten firmament- urn, seo is ge-sewenlic 3 lichamlic; ac swa J>eah we ne magon for tore fyrlynan heahnysse j psera wolena tonysse, 3 for ure eagena tyddernysse, hi naefre ge-seon. Seo heofon beiycb on hyre bosme ealne middan-earcl, and heo aefre tyrn3 on bu- tan us, swiftre ]?onne aenig mylnn-hweol, eall swa deop under J?yssre eorban swa heo is bufan. Eall heo is sinewealt y an- sund 3 mid steorrum amet. Soblice pa o3re heofenan pe bu- I would eke if I durst pick some little information out of the book which Bede the skilful master formed and compiled out of the books of many wise masters, concerning the courses of the year from the beginning of the world, which is not for a discourse, but otherwise to he read by those whom it pleases. Truly when the Almighty Creator made this world, he said “ Let there be light,” and directly there was light. Then God saw that that light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness, and called the light day, and the darkness night; and evening and morning was then reckoned as one day. On the second day God made the hea¬ ven, which is called the firmament, which is visible and corporeal; and yet we may never see it, on account of its great elevation and the thickness of the clouds, and on account of the weakness of our eyes. The heaven incloses in its bosom all the world, and it ever turns about us, swifter than any mill-wheel, all as deep under this earth as it is above. It is all round and entire and studded with stars. Truly