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

  • Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877.
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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    sunne, hsel]?e is on hyre fiberum. Se mona pe weaxb 4 wanab ge-tacnab ]?as andweardan ge-labunge, pe we on synd. Seo ys weaxende ]mrh acennedum cildum 4 waniende jrnrh forb-farenum. pa beorhtan stcorran ge-tacniab ]>a ge-leafful- lan on Godes ge-labunge, 'be on godre drohtnunge scinab. Crist soSlice on-lyht hi ealle )?urh his gyfe swa swa se godspel- lere Iohannes cwaeb, Erat lux vera quce inluminet omnem ho- minem venientem in hunc mundum. Daet sobe leoht com pe on-lyht aslcne mann, cumendne to bysum middan-earde. NaefS ure nan nan leoht aenigre godnysse buton of Cristes gyfe, se be ys sobre rihtwisnysse sunne ge-haten. De primo Die Seeculi, sive de Equinoctio vemail. Done form an daeg ]?yssere worulde we magon afindan ]?urh baes laenctenlices ymnihtes daeg, for ]?am pe se emnihtes daeg is se feorba daeg j?ysse worulde ge-scapennysse. pry dagas waeron aer bam daege butan sunnan j monan j eallum steor- rum, 3 on bam feorban daege ]?yssere worulde ge-scapennysse ge-sceop se aelmihtiga scyppend sunnan, 4 ge-sette hi on aerne mergen on middan east daele, f>aer baes emnihtes circul is ge- teald, p heo aefre ymbe geares ymbrynum paer bone daeg j pa niht ge-ymnytte on ge-licere waegan. Daes ylcan daeges he ge-sette )>one monan fulne on aefnunge, on east-daele mid scinendum steorrum samod, on j?aes haerfestlican ymnihtes ryne, j pa easterlican tid ]?urh baes monan angynn ge-sette. We willab furbor ymbe ]?as emnihte swibor sprecan on ge- dafenlicre stowe, 4 we secgab nu sceortlice p se forma daeg ]?yssere worulde is ge-teald to bam daege pe we hatab quinta decima Kalendas Aprilis, 4 ]?aes emnihtes daeg ys ge-haefd, swa swa Beda taecb, J?aes on bam feorban daege, p is on duo- the men who fear God’s name the sun of righteousness shall arise, and health is on her pinions’. The moon that waxes and wanes is typical of the present con¬ gregation in which we are. He is waxing by the children that are born, and wa¬ ning by those that die. The bright stars are typical of the believers in God’s con¬ gregation, who shine in good converse. Christ truly illuminates them all by bis grace, as the evangelist John said, ‘ The true light came which illuminates every man who comes to this world.’ No one of us has any light of any goodness except by the grace of Christ, who is called the sun of true righteousness. The first day of this world we may find by the day of the vernal equinox, be¬ cause the day of the equinox is the fourth day of the creation of this world. Three days were before that day without sun and moon and all stars, and 011 the fourth day of the creation of this world the Almighty Creator made the sun, and set her early in the morning in the mid-east where the circle of the equinox is reckoned, that she always after a year’s revolutions equalize in like measure there the day and night. On the same day he placed the moon full in the evening in the east toge¬ ther with shining stars, in the course of the autumnal equinox, and fixed Easter-time by the beginning of the moon. We will speak further and more particularly about the equinox in convenient place, and we will now say briefly that the first day of this world is reckoned on the day which we call 15 Kal. Apr. [March 18], and the day of equinox is reckoned, as Bede teaches, on the fourth day from it, that is