Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (eBook, PDF)

Basic Readings
Redaktion: Richards, Mary P.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317758907
• Artikelnr.: 44477103

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
from Ælfric's First Series of Catholic Homilies (British Library, Royal 7.C.xii, fols. 4-218) History of the Manuscript
from The Old English Illustrated Hexateuch The Production of An Illustrated Version
The Publication of Alfred's Pastoral Care