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" Beowulf and the Beowulf manuscript / "
Kevin S. Kiernan.
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BL
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949126
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b703496
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| Main Entry
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Kiernan, Kevin S.,1945-
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Beowulf and the Beowulf manuscript /\ Kevin S. Kiernan.
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| Edition Statement
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Rev. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, ©1996.
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xxx, 328 pages :: illustrations (some color) ;; 23 cm
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0472084127
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: 0712304134
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: 9780472084128
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: 9780712304139
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword / Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe -- 1. The Poem's Eleventh-Century Provenance. The Historical Context of the Extant Manuscript. The Linguistic Tests for an Early Date. The Late Literary and the Early Poetic Dialects. The Mixture of Forms in Beowulf -- 2. The History and Construction of the Composite Codex. Cotton Vitellius A. xv. The Prefixed Leaves. History of the Multiple Foliations. The Southwick Codex. The Nowell Codex. The Beowulf Codex. The Judith Fragment -- 3. The Beowulf Codex and the Making of the Poem. The Authority of the Beowulf Manuscript. The Proofreading of the Scribes. The First Scribe. The Second Scribe. The Palimpsest and the New Text of Folio 179. Beowulf in the Making -- Appendix: The State of the Beowulf Manuscript, 1882-1983.
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When this book first appeared in 1981, most scholars agreed that Beowulf was an early eighth-century poem and few of them had shown any interest in the early eleventh-century manuscript that preserved it. Today they disagree widely, dating the poem anywhere between the eighth and the eleventh century. The single surviving manuscript in The British Library has become a new focus of interest as historians, linguists, literary critics, theorists, palaeographers, and codicologists all debate issues relating to the unique physical context in which the poem survives. With its extensive and seminal discussion of these issues, Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript remains at the centre of these debates.
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British Library., Manuscript., Cotton Vitellius A XV.
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British Museum., Mss. (Cottonian Vitellius A. XV)
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Epic poetry, English (Old)-- Criticism, Textual.
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Manuscript dating.
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Manuscripts, English (Old)-- Editing.
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Manuscripts, Medieval-- England-- Editing.
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Paleography, English.
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Epic poetry, English (Old)
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Manuscript dating.
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Manuscripts, Medieval-- Editing.
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Paleography, English.
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Beowulf (anoniem)
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Handschriften.
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Beowulf-- Manuscripts.
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Beowulf.
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Nowell codex.
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Beowulf-- Manuscripts.
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Beowulf.
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Beowulf-- Critique textuelle.
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Beowulf.
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Nowell codex.
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England.
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Grande-Bretagne, Histoire.
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| Dewey Classification
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829/.3
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| LC Classification
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PR1585.K5 1996
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18.05bcl
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