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The account (abridged) by Bede of the coming of the English to Britain in the 5th century. He wrote in Latin in the 8th century, and his work was rendered into Old English a century later. The text is copied using an Old English hand, with pop-up…

These notes describe a project carried out at the Manchester Museum in the University of Manchester as part of the redisplay of the museum galleries in 1999-2000, to recolour a set of casts of the crosses at Bewcastle and Ruthwell churches acquired…

This article is taken from 'Medieval World' issue no. 1, July/August 1991, Invicta Press, pp. 10-14.

This publication no longer exisits.

This file was submitted by Prof. Jane Roberts on behalf of Pam Weisweiller, a King’s College London postgraduate who died while writing up her PhD thesis. Pam drew attention in her University of London M.A. dissertation (1985–86) to Ker’s…

A series of extracts from S. Lee and E. Solopova's 'The Keys of Middle-earth' (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005). The books sets out to attract fans of Tolkien's fiction to the original medieval texts by providing analysis, texts in their original, and…

Pre-print extracts from E. Solopova and S. Lee's 'Key Concepts in Medieval Literature' (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007) with illustrative essays on Old English and the Anglo-Saxons. Can be ordered (pb/hb) at:…

Miscellaneous entries: names written against runes, name glosses, a table of consanguinity, names of the months, names of the days of the week opposite chapter 8 of Bede's 'De temporibus ratione', names of fishes, and a charm 'Wid blodrine of nosu…

Glosses of a copy of Gregory the Great's 'Regula Pastoralis'. Described by Ker (1957, pp. 435-36, #361) and dated to the late 10th or early 11th century.

Ælfric's Grammar etc. Only complete copy, possibly the earliest. Contains Ælfric's Grammar and Glossary, Ælfric Bata's colloquy in Latin with occasional Old English glosses and marginalia in ink and drypoint, three further Latin colloquies and…

Oxford University English Faculty exam papers for Trinity Term, 1931-1939. Please note that these are zipped files: in order to open a file, you will need to download it, right-click and choose 'Extract all'.