Gothic Textura Quadrata Lines 22-24: Transcription


Alphonso Psalter Lines 22-24
Q Uare fremuerunt gentes : et populi me
...... ditati sunt in ania
A stiterunt reges terre et principes conuenerunt .
Quare fremuerunt gentes: et populi meditati sunt inania?
Astiterunt reges terre et principes convenerunt ...
Translation from the Douai version of the Bible:
[Psalm 2, verses 1-2]

[1]....Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?
[2]....The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together
[against the Lord, and against his Christ].

You may recognise this from Handel's Messiah, with a slightly different translation.

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