Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Basic Readings

Mary P. Richards

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781138174856
• eBook ISBN: 9781317758891
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The study of manuscripts is fundamental to the appreciation of Anglo-Saxon texts and culture. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings provides an introductory collection of materials covering basic terms, techniques, resources, issues, and applications. Focusing on manuscripts copied before 1100 in England, the selections gathered here consider their history, production, analysis, and significance. Drawn from a variety of published sources and new writings commissioned for this collection, these essays offer a thorough background in principles and practices, along with up-to-date coverage of new developments in paleography. This interdisciplinary collection introduces key subjects of research for Anglo-Saxon studies while suggesting potential developments and new directions within the field.

Index to Manuscripts

Listed below are references by page number of appearance for each manuscript mentioned within this book. The citations are arranged alphabetically by city and repository. Readers should refer to 'A Preliminary List of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1100' by Helmut Gneuss, ASE 9 (1981), 1-60, for fuller information concerning those MSS with Gneuss numbers cited (in brackets, following the shelf-mark). The index is keyed, as far as possible, to the citations in Gneuss. MSS mentioned in the book may be by shelf-mark, Gneuss number, or, in a few instances, a shorthand title such as 'the Leningrad Bede'. MSS from Trinity College, Cambridge have two shelf-marks, the second in parentheses. Each set is used by different authors in this book.

Aberdeen

University Library 216 [1]: 200, 214

Antwerp

Plantin-Moretus Museum 47 [775] + BL Add. 32246: 183, 201, 203

Plantin-Moretus Museum 190 [776]: 183, 192, 200, 203

Arendal

Aust-Agder Arkivet A.A.69 [777] + A.A.77: 201

Arras

Bibliothèque Municipale 346 [778]: 128, 200, 201

Bibliotheque Municipale 644: 129

Bibliotheque Municipale 732: 129

Bibiiothèque Municipale 764, fols. 1-93 [779]: 197

Bibliothèque Municipale 764, fols. 134-81 [780]: 130, 180

Bibliothèque Municipale 849: 125

Bibliothèque Municipale 899: 128

Bibliothèque Municipale 1029 [781]: 129, 200-1

Bibliothèque Municipale 1068: 128

Bibliothèque Municipale 1079: 129

Avranches

Bibliothèque Municipale 29 [782]: 200

Bibliothèque Municipale 81 [783]: 201

Bibliothèque Municipale 236 [784]: 200

Badminton, Gloucestershire

Duke of Beaufort Muniments s.n. [2]: 200

Basel

Universitätsbibliothek F.III. 15a: 100

Bergen

Universitetsbiblioteket 1549.5 [789]: 200

Berlin

Staatsbibliothek Th. lat. oct. 167: 211

Bern

Burgerbibliothek A.92: 116

Stadtbibliothek 671 [794]: 183, 197, 211

Stadtbibliothek C.219 (4) [795] + Leiden, Rijksuniversiteit Voss...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
• List of Abbreviations
• Using Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
• Self-Contained Units in Composite Manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Period
• Old Manuscripts/New Technologies
• N.R. Ker and the Study of English Medieval Manuscripts
• Further Addenda and Corrigenda to N.R. Ker's Catalogue
• Surviving Booklists from Anglo-Saxon England
• English Libraries Before 1066: Use and Abuse of the Manuscript Evidence
• Orality and the Developing Text of Caedmon's Hymn
• The Construction of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11
• The Eleventh-Century Origin of Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript
• The Structure of the Exeter Book Codex (Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS.3501)
• The Compilation of the Vercelli Book
• History of the Manuscript and Punctuation (from Ælfric's First Series of Catholic Homilies—British Library, Royal 7. C.xii, fols. 4-218)
• The Production of an Illustrated Version (from The Old English Illustrated Hexateuch)
• The Publication of Alfred's Pastoral Care
• Index to Manuscripts