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Studies in the history of Old English literature.

Title: Studies in the history of Old English literature.
Author: Sisam, Kenneth.
Publication: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1953.

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Description

vi, 314 pages; 23 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

Errata slip inserted.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Cynewulf and his poetry -- 2 The authority of Old English poetical manuscripts -- 'Seasons of fasting' -- 4 The Beowulf manuscript -- 5 The compilation of the Beowulf manuscript -- 6 The Exeter book -- 7 Marginalia in the Vercelli book -- 8 Dialect origins of the earlier Old English verse -- 9 The publication of Alfred's Pastoral care -- 10 MSS. Bodley 340 and 342: Ælfric's Catholic homilies -- 11 An Old English translation of a letter from Wynfrith to Eadburga (A.D. 716-17) in Cotton MS. Otho C 1 ; Addendum: The verses prefixed to Gregory's Dialogues -- 12 The authenticity of certain texts in Lambard's Archaionomia -- 13 Humfrey Wanley -- Notes A. The relationship of Æthelred's codes V and VI ; Note B. Liber monstrorum and English heroic legend ; Note C. The arrangement of the Exeter book ; Note D. The authorship of the verse translation of Boethius's Metra ; Note E. The order of Ælfric's early books.

LCCN

53001429

OCLC

ocm00349107
349107
SCSB-128144

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library