Cloth $115.00 ISBN: 9780859898409 Published July 2009 For sale in North and South America only
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Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Distributed for Liverpool University Press

320 pages | 70 color plates, 50 halftones | 7 x 10 | © 2009
Cloth $115.00 ISBN: 9780859898409 Published July 2009 For sale in North and South America only
Paper $52.00 ISBN: 9780859898416 Published July 2009 For sale in North and South America only

This straightforward, well-illustrated guide to manuscript study for students and researchers in Anglo-Saxon history and literature brings together invaluable advice on accessing and handling historical manuscripts from a group of acclaimed scholars and historians. Aimed at developing an informed and realistic approach to exploring these manuscripts under time constraints, Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts explores the various resources available in libraries; recent developments in electronic and archival databases; and the use of manuscript art, glosses, and marginalia. Geared to both instructors and individual researchers, as well as those working in close contact with or away from the location of these manuscripts, this volume is an authoritative reference source for all aspects of manuscript history.

Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
 
Introduction
   Gale R. Owen-Crocker
 
1  Handling Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
     Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Maria Cesario
 
2  The construction and writing of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
     Alexander R. Rumble
 
3  Manuscript sources of Old English prose
     Donald Scragg
 
4 Manuscript sources of Old English poetry
     Elaine Treharne
 
5  A survey of Latin manuscripts
     Gernot R. Wieland
 
6  Glosses and notes in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
     Timothy Graham
 
7  Manuscript art
     Catherine E. Karkov
 
8  From manuscript to computer
     Stuart D. Lee and Daniel Paul O'Donnell
 
Further reading
Glossary
Index of manuscripts
General index
List of contributors 
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