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Working with Anglo-saxon manuscripts / edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker ; with contributions by Maria Cesario ... [and others]
Van Pelt Library Z106.5.G72 E43 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--England.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- England.
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England.
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
- Manuscripts, English (Old).
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 320 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts is an accessible and generously illustrated guide to manuscript study for students of Anglo-Saxon history and literature.
- Bringing together invaluable advice and information from a group of scholars at the forefront of their fields, the book aims to develop in the reader an informed approach to the mechanisms for accessing and handling manuscripts along with knowledge of the rich resources of the Anglo-Saxon period - and its research potential.
- The book includes a step-by-step guide to palaeography and codicology. Chapters on Old English prose, Old English poetry and Anglo-Latin texts introduce readers to the whole range of written material surviving today. Manuscript art is presented in the context of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts as a whole, and the afterlife of the manuscript is revealed in a chapter demonstrating some of the fascinating detail of glosses and marginalia. The book concludes with an appraisal of recent developments in electronic resources.
- Contents:
- 1 Handling Anglo-Saxon manuscripts / Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Maria Cesario 7
- 2 The construction and writing of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts / Alexander R. Rumble 29
- 3 Manuscript sources of Old English prose / Donald Scragg 61
- 4 Manuscript sources of Old English poetry / Elaine Treharne 89
- 5 A survey of Latin manuscripts / Gernot R. Wieland 113
- 6 Glosses and notes in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts / Timothy Graham 159
- 7 Manuscript art / Catherine E. Karkov 205
- 8 From manuscript to computer / Stuart D. Lee, Daniel Paul O'Donnell 253.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780859898409
- 0859898407
- 9780859898416
- 0859898415
- OCLC:
- 262883587
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