Bede: On the Temple

207 Pages·1995·22.66 MB·English

by  SEAN CONNOLLY

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NOTE TO FRONTISPIECE
Codex Amiatinus, fol. IIr-IIIr. Wearmouth-Jarrow, late seventh century. Plan
of the tabernacle of Moses, perhaps based on a diagram in the sixth-century
Codex Grandior of Cassiodorus. A doorway (INTROITUS) on the east leads
into an outer chamber which contains a seven-branched lampstand (CAND),
the table (MENSA) of showbread and the altar of incense (ALTAR THYM).
Inside the holy of holies (SCA SCORUM) stands the ark of the covenant
(ARCA TEST) surmounted by two winged cherubim. In front of the
tabernacle stand a bronze laver (LABRUM) in which the priests wash
themselves and the altar of burnt offerings (ALTARE HOLOCAUSTI),
below which are inscribed the names of Moses and Aaron. The four cardinal
directions are given in Greek words (ARCTOS = North), the initial letters
of which spell ADAM. On three sides of the tabernacle are written the
names of the sons of Levi (Gershon, Kohath and Merari) with the
enumeration of their clans as in num. 3. Not pictured here is an outer
colonnade surrounded by the names and numbers of the twelve tribes of
Israel.

Translated Texts for Historians
Volume 21
Bede: On the Temple
Translated with notes by SEAN CONNOLLY
with an introduction by JENNIFER O’REILLY
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