medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
My Latin being less than perfect, I'm dying to know the correct translation of this benediction.
George the Less (those Medievals! What will they think of next!)
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:12:35 +0100, John Briggs wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>Benedictio potus si mus aut mustella mergitur intus.
>Benedic, Domine, hunc potum, et haec vasa sicut benedixisti sex ydrias
>lapideas capientes metretas binas vel ternas, et vinum factum de aqua in
>Chana Galileae, sic benedicere digneris cervisam istam, ut sint sani et
>inmaculati omnes qui ex eo bibituri sunt, per invocationem nominis tui,
>Domine, qui regnas in saecula.
>Egbert's Pontifical, ed. Greenwell, p.126-7.
>[I owe this reference to C.E. Hohler, "Some Service books of the Later Saxon
>Church" in D. Parsons (ed.) Tenth-Century Studies: Essays in Commemoration
>of the Millennium of the Council of Winchester and 'Regularis Concordia'
>(Chichester, 1975), somewhat facetious discussion on pp.71-72 and 222-223.]
>John Briggs
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