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.
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Mary Richards has collected . some of the standard works of the past forty years on Old English manuscripts, ranging from a more or less traditional bibliographical approach to the use of the latest electronic methods of studying damaged manuscripts in order to tease from them letters and words long considered lost beyond recovery.-English Language Notes.
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Mary P. Richards is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Texts and Their Traditions in the Medieval Library of Rochester Cathedral Priory.
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The Anglo-Saxonist should be able to both read and describe not only manuscripts written in the period but also those containing Anglo-Saxon texts copied and recopied in subsequent centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
transitional gathering, fitt numbers, auxiliary rulings, medieval booklists, scratched glosses, surviving booklists, limp membrane, three bifolia, square minuscule script, punctus elevatus, third booklet, writing grid, second scribe, six gatherings, second booklet, ultraviolet photograph, caroline minuscule, codicological evidence, first scribe, composite manuscripts, four homilies, medieval libraries, liturgical books, original gathering, historia ecclesiastica Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Bodleian Library, Anglo-Saxon England, British Library, Caedmon's Hymn, Exeter Book, West Saxon, Vercelli Book, Corpus Christi College, Middle Ages, University Library, Prose Preface, English Caroline Minuscule, Christ Church, British Museum, Helmut Gneuss, King Alfred, New York, Trinity College, Lambeth Palace, Michael Lapidge, Cotton Tiberius, Ecclesiastical History, King Athelstan, Nowell Codex New!
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The Anglo-Saxonist should be able to both read and describe not only manuscripts written in the period but also those containing Anglo-Saxon texts copied and recopied in subsequent centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
transitional gathering, fitt numbers, auxiliary rulings, medieval booklists, scratched glosses, surviving booklists, limp membrane, three bifolia, square minuscule script, punctus elevatus, third booklet, writing grid, second scribe, six gatherings, second booklet, ultraviolet photograph, caroline minuscule, codicological evidence, first scribe, composite manuscripts, four homilies, medieval libraries, liturgical books, original gathering, historia ecclesiastica Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Bodleian Library, Anglo-Saxon England, British Library, Caedmon's Hymn, Exeter Book, West Saxon, Vercelli Book, Corpus Christi College, Middle Ages, University Library, Prose Preface, English Caroline Minuscule, Christ Church, British Museum, Helmut Gneuss, King Alfred, New York, Trinity College, Lambeth Palace, Michael Lapidge, Cotton Tiberius, Ecclesiastical History, King Athelstan, Nowell Codex New!
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge on 34 pages
- Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon by N. R. Ker on 12 pages
- Studies in the history of Old English literature by Kenneth Sisam on 7 pages
- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 27 by Michael Lapidge on 7 pages
- Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript by Kevin S. Kiernan on 5 pages
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- The Anglo-Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Year 1000: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium by Michael Frassetto in Front Matter
- The Poems of MS Junius 11: Basic Readings (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England) by R. M. Liuzza in Front Matter
- Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature by John D. Niles in Back Matter
- Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context by Karen Louise Jolly in Back Matter
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