The Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance

by P. L. Jacob

Translation.—Here begins the Preface.

Fig. 338.—Writing of the end of the Seventh Century, after a Diploma of Childebert III., for the Gift of a Villa to the Abbey of St. Denis. (This Fac-simile gives only the half of the length of the lines.)

Text.—Childeberthus rex
Se oportune beneficia ad loca sanctorum quod pro juvamen servorum....
Et hoc nobis ad eterna retributione pertenire confidemus. Ideoque....

Fig. 339.—Writing of the Eighth Century, from a Capitulary of Charlemagne, addressed to Pope Adrian I. in 784.

(Imperial Library, Paris.)

Text.—Primo Capitulo. Salutant vos dominus noster, filius vester, Carolus rex [et filia vestra domna nostra Fastrada, filii et filæ domini nostri simul, et omnis domus sua.

II. Salutant vos cuncti sacerdotes, episcopi et abbates, atque omnis congregatio illorum [in Dei servicio constituta etiam, et universus] populus Franconum.