Anglo-Saxon books and their readers : essays in celebration of Helmut Gneuss's Handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts

Author(s)

• Hall, Thomas N.
• Scragg, D. G.
• Gneuss, Helmut

Bibliographic Information

Anglo-Saxon books and their readers : essays in celebration of Helmut Gneuss's Handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts

edited by Thomas N. Hall and Donald Scragg

（Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center）

Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, c2008

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The collection opens with Gneuss's Rawlinson Center lecture, delivered just a few months prior to the Handlist's publication. The lecture is followed by essays by Donald Scragg and Thomas N. Hall that examine the scribes, contents, circumstances of production, and intended uses of selected manuscripts from the late Anglo-Saxon period. Four essays follow, by Kees Dekker, Rebecca Brackmann, Aaron J Kleist, and Rolf H. Bremmer Jr., investigating the fates of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts at the hands of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antiquaries. The resulting collection addresses the concerns of Anglo-Saxon manuscript studies today, which have been given new energy by the publication of the Handlist.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Thomas N. Hall and Donald Scragg Abbreviations A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Origins, Facts, and Problems by Helmut Gneuss Cotton Tiberius A. iii Scribe 3 and Canterbury Libraries by Donald Scragg The Development of the Common of Saints in the Early English Version of Paul the Deacon's Homiliary by Thomas N. Hall Reading the Anglo-Saxon Gospels in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Kees Dekker Laurence Nowell's Old English Glosses in Howlet's Abcedarium: In the Margins of Early Modern Lexicography by Rebecca Brackmann Matthew Parker, Old English, and the Defense of Priestly Marriage by Aaron J Kleist ''Mine is Bigger Than Yours'': The Anglo-Saxon Collections of Johannes de Laet (1581-1649) and Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1602-50) by Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA89916923
• ISBN:
  • 9781580441377
• LCCN: 2008023302
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Kalamazoo
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 181 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Z106.5.G7
  • DC22 : 091.0942
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Gneuss, Helmut. Handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
  • LCSH : Manuscripts, English (Old) -- England -- History -- To 1500
  • LCSH : Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- History -- To 1500
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Sources
  • LCSH : Antiquarians -- England -- History -- 16th century
  • LCSH : Antiquarians -- England -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century
  • LCSH : Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Marginalia -- England -- History -- 16th century
  • LCSH : Marginalia -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA51884041