Beatus Vir: Studies in Early English and Norse Manuscripts In Memory of Phillip Pulsiano

Edited by A. N. Doane (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Kirsten Wolf
2006 | 545 + xxx pp. | 38 ills. | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 978-0-86698-364-8 | MRTS 319
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This is a collection of fourteen original, substantial, commissioned essays dealing with various aspects of Old English and Old Norse manuscript study. The contributors are working in a closely integrated field, which gives the book a unity. The work includes essays on textual editing, codicology, the interrelation of text and manuscript, manuscript backgrounds, and librarianship. Many of the articles develop current scholarly discussions; others discover new manuscripts or reveal unknown relationships or characteristics; several comprise editions of texts or are related to the problem of editorship or translation; and one details the arrangements of the old British Library before its move to St. Pancras. The collection is aimed at manuscript specialists, graduate students working in this or related fields, research librarians, and interested medievalists in early English or Norse studies.

Table of Contents

  • Gernot R. Wieland: British Library, MS. Royal 15.A.V: One Manuscript or Three?

  • Joyce Hill: Identifying “Texts” in Cotton Julius E. vii: Medieval and Modern Perpectives

  • A. N. Doane: The Werden Glossary: Structure and Sources

  • Kevin Kiernan: Odd Couples in Ælfric’s Julian and Basilissa in British Library, Cotton MS. Otho. B. x

  • Ólafur Halldórsson: Danakonungatal in Copenhagen, Royal Library Barth. D. III. Fol.: An Edition

  • Marianne E. Kalinke: Jóhannes saga gullmans: The Icelandic Legend of the Hairy Anchorite

  • Jonathan Wilcox: The Audience of Ælfric’s Lives of Saints and the Face of Cotton Caligula A. xiv, fols. 93–130

  • Kirsten Wolf: Female Scribes at Work? A Consideration of Kirkjubæjarbók (Codex AM 429 12mo)

  • Stefanie Würth: The Common Transmission of Trójumanna Saga and Breta Sögur

  • Elaine Treharne: Reading from the Margins: The Uses of Old English Homiletic Manuscripts in the Post-Conquest Period

  • Joseph P. McGowan: Elliptical Glossing and Elliptical Compounds in Old English

  • Peter J. Lucas: Abraham Wheelock and the Presentation of Anglo-Saxon: From Manuscript to Print

  • J. R. Hall: Three Studies on the Manuscript Text of Beowulf: Lines 47b, 747b, and 2232a

  • Andrew Prescott: What’s in a Number? The Physical Organization of the Manuscript Collections of the British Library