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Language Saxon, Old

1. Add MS 52225 G

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 52225 G
Title:
Scope & Content:
Anglo-Saxon Glossary, [watermark 1821].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Saxon, Old
Date Range:
after 1820
Extent:
ff. i + 25

2. Cotton MS

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS
Title:
Cotton Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
The Cotton Manuscripts contains a variety of material, much of it relating to the history, literature and culture of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 17th century. It is particularly rich in: (a) manuscripts written in Old English; (b) monastic cartularies; (c) saints’ Liv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Cipher, Coast Miwok, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, Middle, English, English, Middle, English, Old, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Inuit, Irish, Irish, Middle, Italian, Javanese, Latin, Low German, Occitan, Old, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Saxon, Old, Scots, Scots, Spanish, Temne, and Welsh
Date Range:
5th century-19th century
Extent:
1,429 manuscripts

3. Cotton MS Caligula A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A VII
Title:
Heliand and a charm
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of only two non-fragmentary surviving manuscripts of the poem Heliand, an account of the life of Jesus in Old Saxon epic verse. It ends imperfectly, in the middle of the account of the journey to Emmaus. The volume includes: f. 1: part of a memorandum dated 1371-72 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, Latin, and Saxon, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century - the 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Cotton MS Caligula A VII, ff 11–175

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A VII, ff 11–175
Title:
Heliand
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a copy of the Heliand, an Old Saxon Biblical epic copied perhaps in England in the middle or 2nd half of the 10th century (ff. 11r–175v). It is the longest Old Saxon text that survives. Apart from fragments, only one other substantial medieval copy of the Heliand survives (M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Saxon, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Caligula A VII

5. Harley MS 439

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 439
Title:
Heliand
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Codex quatuor Evangeliorum quadrunus Franco-Theotiscus, Sive Harmonia Evangeliorum Francice Scripta. Bibl. Cotton. Thesaurus pretiosissimus Caligula A 7. I.’. ff. 1r-131r: Heliand, copied from Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Saxon, Old
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 6532, f 99v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6532, f 99v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Saxon alphabet.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Saxon, Old
Date Range:
1683-1693
Extent:

1 folio