A Breviary Announcement

The Lutheran Missal project is excited to announce that, in addition to the missal, we are in the progress of producing a bilingual breviary that will feature side-by-side Latin and Anglo-Saxon text. The Anglo-Saxon text for Psalms 1-50 will be the prose translation of Alfred the Great, and the remainder will be that of the anonymous verse translation from the Paris Psalter, c. 1050. The Vetus Latina will serve as the basis for the Latin psalter.

If you’d like to get a head start, here is Psalm 1 (Beatus vir) for Sunday Matins:

Eadig byð se wer þe ne gæð on geþeaht unrihtwisra, ne on þam wege ne stent synfulra, ne on heora wolbærendum setle ne sitt;

ac his willa byð on Godes æ, and ymb his æ he byð smeagende dæges and nihtes.

Him byð swa þam treowe þe byð aplantod neah wætera rynum,

þæt sylð his wæstmas to rihtre tide; and his leaf and his blæda ne fealwiað ne ne seariað. Swa byð þam men þe we ær ymbspræcon: eall him cymð to gode þæt þæt he deð.

Ac þa unrihtwisan ne beoð na swylce, ne him eac swa ne limpð; ac hi beoð duste gelicran þonne hit wind toblæwð.

Þy ne arisað þa unrihtwisan on Domesdæg, ne þa synfullan ne beoð on geþeahte þæra rihtwisena,

for þam God wat hwylce weg þa rihtwisan geearnedon, ac þa unrihtwisan cumað to witum.