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BL
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802605
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b622653
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| Main Entry
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Thomson, Simon C.
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| Title & Author
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Communal creativity in the making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript : : towards a history of reception for the Nowell Codex /\ by Simon C. Thomson
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| Publication Statement
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Leiden ;Boston :: Brill,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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| Series Statement
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Library of the written word ;; volume 67.The manuscript world ;; volume 10
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| Page. NO
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xxiii, 392 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, color facsimiles ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9004360859
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: 9789004360853
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9789004360860
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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| Contents
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(Re)introducing the texts of the Nowell Codex -- Reconstructing the Nowell Codex -- The images in the Wonders of the East -- Scribe A's performance -- Scribe B's performance -- Communal manuscript production in late Anglo-Saxon England -- Appendix 1. Sections and structural ideas in the Wonders of the East -- Appendix 2. Images and colours used in the Wonders of the East -- Appendix 3. Scribal corrections in the Nowell Codex -- Appendix 4. Readers' annotations to the Nowell Codex
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| Abstract
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"Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved 'Beowulf' as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour and arguing for a date in Cnut's reign. He presents evidence for the use of more than three exemplars and at least two artists as well as two scribes, making this an intentional and creative re-presentation uniting literature religious and heroic, in poetry and in prose. He goes on to set it in the broader context of manuscript production in late Anglo-Saxon England as one example among many of communities using old literature in new ways, and of scribes working together, making mistakes, and learning."--
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British Library., Manuscript., Cotton Vitellius A XV
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Epic poetry, English (Old)-- Criticism, Textual
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Manuscripts, English (Old)
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Manuscripts, Medieval-- England
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Scribes-- England
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Beowulf-- Criticism, Textual
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Beowulf., English (Old English), (Nowell codex)
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De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus., English (Old English), (Nowell codex)
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Nowell codex
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| LC Classification
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PR1586.T47 2018
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