THE CAEDMON MANUSCRIPT OF ANGLO-SAXON BIBLICAL POETRY JUNIUS XI, OXFORD, 1927

Description: THE CAEDMON MANUSCRIPT OF ANGLO-SAXON BIBLICAL POETRY JUNIUS XI The Caedmon Manuscript of Anglo-Saxon Biblical Poetry Junius XI in the Bodleian Library. Intro. by Sir Israel Gollancz. Oxford: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1927. 16 14" x 11 1/2", (ii),cxxvii,(7),229,(1)pp., color collotype frontispiece and 231 black/white collotype reproductions, the entire manuscript, in facsimile; publisher's black cloth, the front cover and spine gilt (covers marked and rubbed, spine repaired, spine ends and outer hinges frayed, corners showing, one upper edge showing; inner hinges cracked, volume shaken, stitching weak in places, the first two leaves (blank and half-title) sprung as a unit; remains of tape to the blank margins of six consecutive pages (pp. 74-79 of the ms.), approximately 25 pieces in all, the largest 1/2" x 1/2"; library copy, shelfmark at the foot of the spine, bookplate on the inside front cover, remnants of a label on the first (blank) recto, label removed from the verso of the final leaf, pocket on the inside rear cover, title-leaf and three other leaves each with a small embossed stamp in their blank upper, outer corner, date rubber-stamped on the inside rear cover). Gollancz' Introduction runs to 94 pages: "The Discovery of the Manuscript," "General Description of the Manuscript," "The Manuscript Corrections," "Gatherings and Sections of the Manuscript," "The Art and Provenance of the Manuscript," "The Illustrations," "Ascription of the Poems to Caedmon," "Genesis-Genesis B," "Genesis A," "Percoba, Olla, Olliua, Olliuani," "Exodus," "The Itinerary of the Israelites," "Daniel," "Excursus on the Song of the Three Children," "Christ and Satan," "Conclusion"; "Surveys" ("The Gatherings and Sections," "Corrections in Book II") and Appendices ("Bede's Account of Caedmon," "William of Malmesbury's Reference to Caedmon") follow.

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