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Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker

This book is an accessible and generously illustrated guide to manuscript study for students of Anglo-Saxon history and literature. Bringing together invaluable advice and information from a group of scholars at the forefront of their fields, the book aims to develop in the reader an informed approach to the mechanisms for accessing and handling manuscripts along with knowledge of the rich resources of the Anglo-Saxon period - and its research potential. The book includes a step-by-step guide to palaeography and codicology. Chapters on Old English prose, Old English poetry and Anglo-Latin texts introduce readers to the whole range of written material surviving today. Manuscript art is presented in the context of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts as a whole, and the afterlife of the manuscript is revealed in a chapter demonstrating some of the fascinating detail of glosses and marginalia. The book concludes with an appraisal of recent developments in electronic resources. 320p, b/w and col illus throughout (Exeter UP, 2009)

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