Gothique livresque - une Bible latine
St. Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 332, 4v (www.e-codices.unifr.ch)
Transcription by Marjorie Burghart [Version 1 dated 2011-01-01]
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Introduction

Bible latine, fin XIIIe ou début du XIVe siècle. Le passage reproduit ici correspond aux toutes premières phrases de la Bible, dans le livre de la Génèse.

Transcription

See the user manual file if you have trouble using this exercise. A double-click on a word in the image displays its transcription. To get help with the abbreviations in this exercise, click here.

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The abbreviations used in medieval writings are one of the major difficulties for their reading. The dictionary of abbreviations by Adriano Cappelli (several editions) is a very useful tool, still available in bookshops, but of which two editions are also available online, on websites with more or less practical interfaces:

A. Cappelli, Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane, Milano, 1912.

A. Cappelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum, 2. verb. Aufl. Leipzig, 1928.

For French abbreviations, see:

Marc Smith, Dictionnaire des abréviations françaises, XIIe-XVIIe siècle

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Solution

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In principio creavit deus celum et terram
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terra autem erat inanis et vacua et tenebre
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era(n)t sup(er) facie(m) abissi et sp(iritu)s dei ferebatur s(upe)r
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aquas Dixitque d(eu)s fiat lux et facta est lux

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Marjorie Burghart, “Bible latine: début du livre de la Génèse (St. Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 332, 4v)” [Version 1 dated 2011-01-01], in Album interactif de paléographie médiévale / Interactive Album of Mediaeval Palaeography, coord. Marjorie Burghart, Lyon, 2011.

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Gothique livresque - une Bible latine
St. Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 332, 4v (www.e-codices.unifr.ch)
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Introduction

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Help with abbreviations

Solution

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Gothique livresque - une Bible latineSt. Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 332, 4v (www.e-codices.unifr.ch)Transcription by Marjorie Burghart [Version 1 dated 2011-01-01]Share|

Introduction

Transcription

Help with abbreviations

Solution

Interactive Album of Mediaeval Palaeography
Collection of Transcription Exercises on Mediaeval Documents

Gothique livresque - une Bible latine
St. Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 332, 4v (www.e-codices.unifr.ch)
Transcription by Marjorie Burghart [Version 1 dated 2011-01-01]
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