Four are the elements from which the rainbow takes its colours Quadricolor enim est . ex omnibus elementis in se rapit species. De celo enim trahit igneum colorem . de aquis purpureum . de aere album de terris collegit nigrum. For it [the rainbow] is of four colours, and takes its appearance from all of…
Category: Gospelbooks
From the Eagle’s talons to the Internet: the Book of Cerne goes online
As the British Library’s Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition draws to a close, I am thinking about how much I will miss the manuscripts which were loaned by other institutions, which I had heard about or even studied but never seen before. One of these was the Book of Cerne, an early medieval collection of prayers, gospel…
For the Wynn 