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There are a number of masonic manuscripts that are important in the study of the emergence of Freemasonry.Most numerous are the Old Charges or Constitutions.These documents outlined a "history" of masonry, tracing its origins to a biblical or classical root, followed by the regulations of the organisation, and the responsibilities of its different grades.
The English word druid derives from the Latin word druidēs (plural), which was considered by ancient Roman writers to come from the native Gaulish word for these figures. [8] [9] [10] Other Roman texts employ the form druidae, while the same term was used by Greek ethnographers as δρυΐδης (druidēs).
When manuscript production resumed in the later portion of Alfred's reign, a break with the previous Insular style of manuscript illumination occurred. The new style, although drawing some elements from Insular manuscripts, also was influenced by Carolingian , Byzantine , and Mediterranean traditions.
MS 11639) is an important Hebrew illuminated manuscript from 13th-century France, created c. 1278-98. [1] A miscellany is a manuscript containing texts of different types and by different authors, and this volume contains a wide range of Hebrew language texts, mostly religious but many secular. The manuscript is exceptional among medieval ...
The Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids or OBOD is a Neo-Druidic order based in England, [1] but based in part on the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards. [2] [3] It has grown to become a dynamic druid organisation, with members in all parts of the world.
Aldred the Scribe (also known as Aldred the Glossator) is the name by which scholars identify a tenth-century priest, otherwise known only as Aldred, who was a provost of the monastic community of St. Cuthbert at Chester-le-Street in 970. [1] He is best known for his gloss of the Lindisfarne Gospels in the late tenth century.
A medieval copy (Khabouris b) of the manuscript, Garber told me, was in the possession of the Emotional Maturity Instruction Center, Decatur, Georgia. The center had transliterated the Syriac text of the Beatitudes in Christ's Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:3–12) and was making a copy of this available for four dollars with the assurance that ...
The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), containing 261 parchment leaves (sized 21 by 15.3 centimetres (8.3 by 6.0 in)), [2] with the text-block being 15 by 8.7 centimetres (5.9 by 3.4 in). [3] The text is written in small uncial letters, in one column of 31 lines per page. [1]