Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage

Phillip Pulsiano, Elaine M. Treharne

'...this is a volume from which one will learn much; and which, moreover, well illustrates the fruitfulness of different approaches to manuscript studies.' Notes and Queries

• 1. Gloss and Illustration: Two Means to the Same End? Gernot R. Wieland, University of British Columbia. 2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 57 and its Anglo-Saxon Users. Timothy Graham, Medieval Institute, University of Western Michigan. 3. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162. D.G. Scragg, University of Manchester. 4. The Prefatory Matter of London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius E. xviii. Phillip Pulsiano, Villanova University. 5. The Conybeare-Madden Collation of Thorkelin’s Beowulf. Kevin S. Kiernan, University of Kentucky. 6. Reading the C-Text: The After-Lives of London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. i. Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, University of Notre Dame. 7. Lay Literacy in Anglo-Saxon England and the Development of the Chirograph. Kathryn A. Lowe, University of Glasgow. 8. Memorialised Readings: Manuscript Evidence for Old English Homily Composition. Mary Swan, University of Leeds. 9. An Episode in the Medieval Afterlife of the Caligula Troper. E.C. Teviotdate, J. Paul Getty Museum. 10. The Dates and Origins of Three Twelfth-Century Old English Manuscripts. Elaine M. Treharne, University of Leicester. 11. The Ghost of Asser. Andrew Prescott, The British Library.