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Described by Ker (1957) p. 351 as 'Donations to Exeter by Leofric and Athelstan' the manuscript contains Latin Gospels with beast-headed evangelist portraits made at Landévennec, Brittany, late 9th or early 10th century, supplemented in the 11th…

Described by Ker (1957), p. 355 as 'Homily; Scribble' this is listed by Bodley as 'St. Dunstan's Classbook'. Contains Eutyches, with Old Breton glosses, 9th century; Homily on the Invention of the Cross in Old English, 11th century (ff. 10-18v);…

Additions to the Leofric Missal, described by Ker (1957), pp. 378-379. All these images are © Bodleian Library. The full image collection is available at: http://image.ox.ac.uk/.

Life of St. Basil, in Old English, first half of the 11th century: one blackened fragment retrieved from the fire of the Cotton Library in 1731 and given by Browne Willis to Thomas Hearne, from a volume of Saints' Lives of which over fifty other…

The first four pages of Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, CCCC MS 419, pp. 95-8. This manuscript contains fifteen Old English Homilies by Wulfstan and others. Described by Ker (1957) pp. 115-6, and dated to the first half of the eleventh century.…

A series of recordings taken from various CDs produced by The Chaucer Studio. The Chaucer Studio has an extensive range of recordings across medieval literature and has a full catalogue and online ordering at…

'Deor' read aloud at West Stow, with accompaniment on Anglo-Saxon lyre.

A handout breaking Beowulf down into a series of 'times' - i) the distant past; ii) just before the fight with Grendel (e.g. 20-50 years); iii) Danish episodes; iv) intervening period (50 years); v) time of Dragon, and future.

The handout breaks…

A series of web pages based around using the Thesaurus of Old English for teaching purposes. The Thesaurus is at: http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oethesaurus/
© University of Glasgow, and these pages were put together by Carole Biggam, Robyn…