The Nowell Codex is the second of two manuscripts comprising the bound volume Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, one of the four major Old English poetic manuscripts...
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Daniel. The poem survives in a single copy in the manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. It has no title in the original manuscript, but has become known by...
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Nowell Codex (Cotton Vitellius A. xv). He also studied the Exeter Book, annotating folios 9r and 10r amongst others. In 1568 Lambarde, with Nowell's encouragement...
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Exeter Book (redirect from Codex Exoniensis)
Vercelli Book in the chapter library of Vercelli Cathedral, Italy, the Nowell Codex in the British Library, and the Junius manuscript in the Bodleian Library...
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Vercelli Book (redirect from Anglo–Saxon Codex Vercellensis)
Bodleian Library, the Exeter Book in Exeter Cathedral Library, and the Nowell Codex in the British Library). It is an anthology of Old English prose and...
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It is found in the same manuscript as the heroic poem Beowulf, the Nowell Codex, dated ca. 975–1025. The Old English poem is one of many retellings of...
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Wonders of the East (section Nowell Codex)
the 11th and 12th centuries, the earliest of these being the famous Nowell Codex, which is also the only manuscript containing Beowulf. The Old English...
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Junius manuscript (redirect from Codex Junius)
(2019–) Anglo-Saxon literature Exeter Book History of the English Bible Nowell Codex Old English Bible translations Vercelli Book Lockett, Leslie (2002)....
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Unferth does not appear in any Old English manuscript outside of the Nowell Codex, which contains Beowulf, and the meaning of the name is disputed. Several...
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based on the Anglo-Saxon mythic hero Beowulf, first depicted in the Nowell Codex. The tale of DC Comics' version of Beowulf starts out very close to the...
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translation of Orosius in the tenth century. It is preserved in the Nowell Codex. The original translation was in the Mercian dialect, but the surviving...
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texts, then as Anglo-Saxon runes; for example, in manuscripts such as Nowell Codex (Beowulf) and The Exeter Book, the rune ᛗ (mann, 'man') was sometimes...
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History of books (section Florentine Codex)
than a scroll, is called a codex. After this invention, hand-bound, expensive, and elaborate manuscripts began to appear in codex form. This gave way to press-printed...
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were made by artisans who were largely ignorant of runes. According to Nowell Myres, pseudo-runes may have been "intended to impress the illiterate as...
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303. ISBN 978-90-04-29273-4. OCLC 932684337. Bergreen 2003, pp. 224–231. Nowell, C.E. (1962). "Antonio Pigafetta's account". Magellan's Voyage Around the...
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his mother. Grendel is a figure in the poem Beowulf, preserved in the Nowell Codex. Grendel, being cursed as the descendant of the Biblical Cain, along...
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top shelf (A), and count fifteen over" for the volume containing the Nowell Codex (including Beowulf) and "Go to the bust of Nero, top shelf, tenth book"...
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following other medical texts, in the British Library's Harley MS 585, a codex probably compiled in England in the late tenth or early eleventh century...
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Manuscript (British Library Cotton Vitellius A. xv), sometimes called the Nowell Codex, contains prose and poetry, typically dealing with monstrous themes,...
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Gothic. The earliest extant reference to the first foliation of the Nowell Codex (British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.xv), which contains the poem Beowulf...
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subject of scholarly debate. The poem, Beowulf, is contained in the Nowell Codex. As noted in lines 106–114 and lines 1260–1267 of Beowulf, monsters (which...
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Geoffrey Russom Tom Shippey Related Adaptations Anglo-Saxon paganism Battle of Finnsburg Beowulf and Middle-Earth Heorot Hrunting Nægling Nowell Codex...
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Organized Filipino Resistance Vs. Foreign Aggression". Retrieved April 9, 2009. Nowell, Charles E. (1962). Magellan's Voyage Around the World: Three Contemporary...
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annunciation to the shepherds, and the episode is also significant in "The First Nowell", Angels from the Realms of Glory, the originally French carol "Angels We...
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poetry (a codex is a book in modern format, as opposed to a scroll): the Junius Manuscript, the Vercelli Book, the Exeter Book, and the Nowell Codex or Beowulf...
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2010. Retrieved June 30, 2010. Collingwood, Robin George; Myres, John Nowell Linton (1998). "Severeus and Albinus". Roman Britain and English Settlements...
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University of Chicago Press. pp. 175, 635–638. ISBN 978-0-226-46732-0. Nowell, Charles E. (1962). Magellan's Voyage Around the World: Three Contemporary...
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Nowell Codex Beowulf Judith Junius MS Genesis A, B Exodus Daniel Christ and Satan Vercelli Book Andreas "The Fates of the Apostles" "Soul and Body I" Dream...
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man, when furious, he becomes cruel and retaliates on humankind". The Nowell Codex, perhaps more commonly known as the manuscript containing the Anglo-Saxon...
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