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The Paris Psalter (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. Fonds Latin 8824) is an entire Anglo-Saxon psalm book written in both Latin and the West Saxon dialect of Old English. [1] The manuscript dates from the middle of 11th century, written by a scribe who stated that he was called Wulfwinus cognomento Cada (i.e. Wulfwine or Wulfwig surnamed ...
The Memorial of Saint Helena (French: Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène), written by Emmanuel de Las Cases, is a journal-memoir of the beginning of Napoleon Bonaparte's exile on Saint Helena. The core of the work transcribes Las Cases' near-daily conversations with the former Emperor on his life, his career, his political philosophy, and the ...
The manuscript is the only psalter to survive intact from twelfth-century Italy. [20] There are, however, fragments of contemporary psalters that feature similar styles of decoration. For instance, Christie's 2023 auction of a leaf from a twelfth-century Italian psalter features an illuminated E initial for Psalm 80. [21]
Napoleon surrendering to the English and boarding one of their ships. Bonaparte's arrival on Saint Helena Island, engraving by Louis-Yves Queverdo [].. Following his abdication on June 22, 1815, Napoleon proceeded to the Atlantic coast, where the French government, under the leadership of Fouché, had arranged for two frigates to facilitate his departure for America.
Psalterium Sinaiticum, folio 16 recto (manuscript Sin. slav. 38) Folio 1 recto from the continuation of the Psalterium (manuscript Sin. slav. 2/N). The Psalterium Sinaiticum (scholarly abbreviations: Psa or Ps. sin.) is a 209-folio Glagolitic Old Church Slavonic canon manuscript, the earliest Slavic psalter, dated to the 11th century.
The Psalter has parallel texts with texts in two Latin versions, a Hebrew version, and a Greek version. In 972, the future Otto II when he, at the age of about seventeen, visited the monastery with his father, Otto I , had found a locked chest in the Abbey treasury , which he had demanded opened.
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