A Catalogue of Manuscripts Known to Contain Old English Dry-Point Glosses

A Catalogue of Manuscripts Known to Contain Old English Dry-Point Glosses
Author: Dieter Studer-Joho
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3772000304

While quill and ink were the writing implements of choice in the Anglo-Saxon scriptorium, other colouring and non-colouring writing implements were in active use, too. The stylus, among them, was used on an everyday basis both for taking notes in wax tablets and for several vital steps in the creation of manuscripts. Occasionally, the stylus or perhaps even small knives were used for writing short notes that were scratched in the parchment surface without ink. One particular type of such notes encountered in manuscripts are dry-point glosses, i.e. short explanatory remarks that provide a translation or a clue for a lexical or syntactic difficulty of the Latin text. The present study provides a comprehensive overview of the known corpus of dry-point glosses in Old English by cataloguing the 34 manuscripts that are currently known to contain such glosses. A first general descriptive analysis of the corpus of Old English dry-point glosses is provided and their difficult visual appearance is discussed with respect to the theoretical and practical implications for their future study.

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
Author: Helmut Gneuss
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 961
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442648236

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts is the first publication to list every surviving manuscript or manuscript fragment written in Anglo-Saxon England between the seventh and the eleventh centuries or imported into the country during that time. Each of the 1,291 entries in Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge's Bibliographical Handlist not only details the origins, contents, current location, script, and decoration of the manuscript, but also provides bibliographic entries that list facsimiles, editions, linguistic analyses, and general studies relevant to that manuscript. A general bibliography, designed to provide full details of author-date references cited in the individual entries, includes more than 4,000 items. Compiled by two of the field's greatest living scholars, the Gneuss-Lapidge Bibliographical Handlist stands to become the most important single-volume research tool to appear in the field since Greenfield and Robinson's Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature. Their achievement in the present book will endure for many decades and serve as a catalyst for new research across several disciplines.

The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130)

The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130)
Author: Richard Gameson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

This large reference work to manuscripts is the result of painstaking investigation into historical sources dating from the first seventy years of Norman rule. Gameson has identified approximately 900 manuscripts and has produced a detailed catalogue of authors, documents and their provenance. An essential reference tool to scholars of the period.

The Vespasian psalter

The Vespasian psalter
Author: Sherman McAllister Kuhn
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1965
Genre: Bible
ISBN:

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile
Author: Phillip Pulsiano
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2003
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780866983082

Provides descriptions of manuscripts held in various libraries, including the manuscript's history, codicological features, collation, list of contents, notes on special features and problems, and selected bibliography.

Isabel Rules

Isabel Rules
Author: Barbara F. Weissberger
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2004
Genre: Sex role in literature
ISBN: 9781452906300