The Award of the Argent Cresset is an award given by the Baron and Baroness of Cleftlands to individuals who make efforts to learn and teach the arts within the Barony.
- Source: Catalog of Illuminated Manuscripts, British Library
- Title: Psalter with Old English gloss, the Psalms preceded by a calendar and compotus material (ff. 1-12), and followed by canticles and litany (ff. 119-132v), and prayers (ff. 143-148v), specifically Arundel 60 f. 2 'Aquarius'
- Origin: England, S. ( Winchester)
- Date: 3rd quarter of the 11th century, probably after 1073
The Award of the Argent Cresset was created on pergamenata with Speedball calligraphy ink. The text reads as follows:
Pay heed the words of Crispin and Gianna, Baron and Baroness of Cleftlands. It is proper to honor those who make efforts to learn and teach the arts which enrich the splendor of our fair barony. Therefore, we wish to grant Lord Njall Hreggviðr an Award of the Argent Cresset and the right to bear the badge: fieldless, a cresset argent enflamed proper within and conjoined to an annulet argent estencilly gules. Done by our hands this 13th day of June AS 55 as we shelter from the plagued battlefields of Northern Oaken War Maneuvers.
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