Today’s phrase is actually an inscription on an image from the Luttrel Psalter (British Library Add. MS 42130, folio 202v), a manuscript from the British Library. I came across it in Peter Coss and Maurice Keen’s collection of essays, Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England. So, again, what we’re looking at is some medieval Latin.
Gloria patri Dominus Galfridus louterell me fieri fecit.
Gloria – noun; glory, fame, ambition, renown, vainglory, boasting
patri – noun; father
Gloria patri – Glory to the father
Dominus Galfridus louterell – Lord Geoffrey Luttrel
me – I, me, myself
fieri (fio, feri, factus sum) – verb; to be made, come into existence, to come about ~ this is a passive participle
fecit (facio, facere, feci, factus) – verb; make/build/construct/create/cause/do, have built/made, fashion, work (metal), act/take action/be active; act/work (things), function, be efective, produce, produce by growth, bring forth (young), create, bring into existence, compose/write, classify, provide, do/perfom, commit crime, suppose/imagine
fieri fecit – caused to be made/born/ect ect
Glory to the father who caused Sir Geoffrey Luttrel, myself, to be born.
And now it is time to deadhead the roses before I can get back to work.
