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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England Up to 1100
Helmut Gneuss (Author), Michael Lapidge (Author)
9781442629271
Paperback / softback, published 21 December 2015
960 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 5.1 cm, 1.24 kg
‘The editors supply details of past scholarly analyses of each manuscript, and in so doing produce a volume that will be invaluable to permanence of print…. This is a true magnum opus.’ ‘Professors Gneuss and Lapidge have provided a remarkable, elegantly organized, and exhaustively informative resource.’
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.
Preface Abbreviations Introduction I Libraries in the British Isles (nos. 1-774. 1) II Libraries outside the British Isles (nos. 774. 3-947) III Untraced Manuscripts Bibliography Index of Authors and Texts