Provisional Drogereit pdf

The language of the boundary clause is West-Saxon “Koine” 102 .
(p. 364) The Sanction frequently employs imagery and nouns between the commonly
used words: “…sciat se…periturum”. To round off the characteristics of the scribe we
will list them all:
“novissima ac magna examinationis die stridula clangente archangeli salpice bustis
sponte dehiscentibus somata iam rediviva relinquentibus elementibus omnibus
pavefactis cum Iuda proditore. Qui a satoris pio sato edacibus ineffabilium
tormentorum flammis.”
At the beginning there is an appropriate:
“…hanc meae compositionis ac confirmationis breviculam…
infringere vel elidere temptaverit…”
The dating clause is as comprehensive as possible. In addition to the day and location
it includes the year of incarnation and year of reign, the indictio (Roman) and epactae
(leap days), the concurrents and the lunar year. Such detail, especially the certainty of
the chronology does not surprise us at all with Ae. A, as everything indicates to his
being well and broadly educated 103 . He notes the presence and the consent of the
witnesses in two ways (see above as with the sentence “quamdiu vivat”):
“tota populi generalitate sub alis regiae dapsilitatis ovanti..”
“…episcopis, abbatibus, ducibus. partiae procuratoribus. regia dapsilitate
ovantibus…”
Of the charter he says: “perscripta est…” Then he quite expressly mentions the
consent of the witnesses 104 :
“…est; cuius etiam inconcussae. firmitatis auctoritas! his testibus roborata constat.
quorum nomina subtus. caracteribus depicta! annotantur.”
102 In C. S. 702 we once again have dialect in the charter issued for Kent. In the boundary clause it is
the written word biorh in particular; with the witness names Biornstan, Thiodred, Saexelm, Biorhtsige.
As the names are written in West-Saxon in other charters of the same hand, it leaves us with the only
possibility of a non-uniform handwriting, or with the fact that our scribe might have originated from
Kent and occasionally reverted to his old type of handwriting.
103 Treiter regards this comprehensive dating as evidence of a work written in a monastery (see a. a. O.
P 82). However, in addition to the fact already mentioned, that this is very typical of our scribe, there is
also the contradictory fact that Alfred did not succeed in stopping the education of the monks. Here we
have proof that scribe Aethelstan A was educated (see Asser’s Life of King Alfred, ed W. H.
Stevenson, Oxford 1904, Ch. 93 and p. 332, and B. ten Brink, Geschichte der englischen Lliteratur p.
119 (The History of English Literature)
104 Excursus I. The meaning of the signature in the period from Aethelstan to Eadgar.
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