Title: HELMUT GNEUSS and MICHAEL LAPIDGE, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: a bibliographical handlist of manuscripts and manuscript fragments written or owned in England up to 1100.
Abstract: THE appearance of this weighty tome marks the conclusion of a project begun by Helmut Gneuss in 1953 to identify and list all manuscripts written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England, and to catalogue references to them in scholarly publications. The handlist was first published in Anglo-Saxon England 9 (1980) and later in 2001, much expanded, in book form by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Collections of addenda and corrigenda subsequently appeared in Anglo-Saxon England 32 (2003) and 40 (2011). In these instantiations, the handlist merely listed what survived; in this version, the editors supply details of past scholarly analyses of each manuscript, and in so doing, produce a volume that will be invaluable to palaeographers, codicologists, art historians, and literary scholars for decades to come. The handlist has two main components: an alphabetical list of the manuscripts in two sequences, one of those in British libraries, the other of those abroad, and an almost 200-page bibliography, listing over 4000 publications. Reference between them is by author and date, so a mention of Parkes (1992) in the entry for Bodley 819 (no. 604) takes the reader to the palaeographer’s Pause and Effect. There is also an introduction, outlining the principles used to determine what to include and what to exclude in the handlist, and an index of authors and texts.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-04-23
Language: en
Type: article
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