Deo digne dogmatizat.
[Ast]
Æthelstanus Anglosæxna
rex et rector Doruernensi
metropoli dat per æuum.
[‘Mael Brigte mac Tornain propounds this gospel-book throughout the world, in the manner worthy of God; but Athelstan, king and ruler of the Anglo-Saxons, gives it forever to the metropolitan see of Canterbury.’ Keynes, p. 153, n. 52]