?lfric's translation of the Lord's Prayer, from a 17th centu
lfric's translation of the Lord's Prayer, from a 17th century edition. With decorative initial letter.. From: Divers ancient monuments in the Saxon tongue : written seven hundred yeares agoe : shewing that both in the Old and New Testament, the Lords Prayer, and the Creede, were then used in the mother tongue : and also, what opinion was then held of the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ published by William L'Isle... : whereunto is added out of the Homilies and Epistles of Aelfricus a second edition of a testimonie of antiquity touching the sacrament, and a sermon on the Paschall Lambe, and of the sacramentall body and blood of Christ, used to be spoken by the people at Easter, before they should receive the Communion
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10643027
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46097415
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3383px x 5315px
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Credit
©King's College London / Mary Evans
Source
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham, fl. 955-1010, translator. Publisher: Griffin, Edward, the younger, d. 1652 printer
Date
1638





























