Juliana - Couverture souple

Cynewulf

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0859890538 ISBN 13 : 9780859890533

Editeur : University of Exeter Press, 1978

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Further, he gave the Cathedral an ivory altar, ivory croziers, silver chalices, a silver censer, bells and banners, vestments and altar-cloths, and books to the number of sixty-one, thirty-one in English, and thirty in Latin. The list of these is still extant ;they consist mainly of service-books, portions of the Bible (including the Gospels in English) and theological works. Ten of these volumes are still preserved elsewhere in England; one, and one only, remains in the possession of the Cathedral. This is the work designated in the list as mycel englisc hoc be gehivylcum pingum on leo Snvisan geivorhty that is, one great English book on various subjects composed in verse, and now known as the Exeter Book. Since Leofric stime leaves from both the beginning and end of the book have disappeared.1 There now remain 123 leaves, or 246 pages, numbered from 8a to i3ob, of the original manuscript; seven other leaves have been prefixed at a comparatively modern time. In the interior of the book one leaf has been cut out between 37 and 38. The first and last pages are nearly illegible, owing to damages sustained by the manuscript at some period when it was unbound ;the last twelve leaves are in varying degree marred by a hole, with charred edges, where some bit of ignited wood, or similar substance, has fallen on the open page. Otherwise the volume is in good condition. The manuscript, which is on vellum, is neatly written, apparently in a single hand, either of the latter part of the tenth,2 or the early part of the eleventh century.8 1T his description is abridged from that given by Schipper, Germ. xix. jzy-jig. 2T horpe; Miss L. T. Smith (article Kynewulf in Diet. Nat. Biogr.) Schipper; Willker, Grundriss, p. zzj.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Exeter Press
• Date d'édition: 1978
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0859890538
• ISBN 13: 9780859890533
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Éditeur: Woolf Rosemary
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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