Order of the Silver Crescent scroll for Lilias de Cheryngton
Scroll text by Gun∂ormr Dengir, Ælia Fortunata and Jerome of Stridon; based on the Song of Songs: http://www.drbo.org/drl/chapter/24001.htm
Calligraphy and Illumination by Æsa feillinn Jossursdottir; based on Manuscript Vat.lat.9490 f.25v - Vatican Library
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Burgundy acid free paper, Dr. Ph. Martin's Spectralite 18 carat gold ink, goauche, schminke water color
Quae est ista quae progreditur quasi aurora consurgens, pulchra ut luna lunata, electa ut sol, terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata?
Actiones illia columnae marmoreae quae fundatae sunt super bases aureas. Opera eia ut Atlantis, Mundus Cognitus sustinens.
Ea flos Orientis, illa Lilias Cheryngtonis.
Sicut lilium inter spinas, sic Domina nostrae inter Tygrides.
Sicut turris Orientis vis eia, quae aedificata est cum propugnaculis; mille clypei pendant ex ea, omnis bellatores fortium.
Si murus est, aedificemus super eam lunae argenteae;
si cimeliarchium est, ponamus corona Orientis in cautione sua.
Servicium eiae quam signum in Nostro Cordibus, quam signum in Nostra Armis, quia fortis est ut mors Noster Amor eiae.
in illo tempore, cum illis verbis fecerunt, in primo anno Suus Maiestates Tindale et Alberice consulibus, inter nubes candentes, exaltaverunt Liliatem Cheryngtonis ad Ordinem Selenarium Argenteum suo, ut hoc signum gerat, In pale a crescent inverted argent and an Eastern crown Or; simul ut potentias et responsabilitates ordini utatur in saecula saeculorum, vivat.
English text:
Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising,
fair as the crescent moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?
Her acts as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold.
Her labors like Atlas, supporting the known world
She is the flower of the East, this Lillias of Cheryngton.
As the lily among the thorns, so is our Lady among the Tygers
Her Strength is the tower of the East, which is built with bulwarks;
a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armor of valiant warriors.
If she be a wall: let us decorate it with inverted crescents of silver
If she be a treasury, let us place an Eastern Crown within her care
Her service is as a seal upon Our Hearts,
as a seal upon Our Arms,
for Our Love for her is as strong as death
It was in those times and with those words that their majesties Tindal and Alberic, in the year of their first Counsulship did, amidst clouds of light, elevate Lillias of Cheryngton to their order of their silver crescent, that she might bear the mark, In pale a crescent inverted argent and an Eastern crown Or, and exercise the powers and responsibilities of that order for ever and ever, vivat
