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An edition of 'The Battle of Brunanburh'
The anonymous poem on the Battle of Brunanburh appears under the year 937 in four manuscripts (A, B, C and D) of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It celebrates the victory of King Athelstan over the allied forces of the Irish Vikings and the King of Scots…
A Programmed Course in Old English (Book) - B. Raw (University of Keele)
Workbook for Barbara C. Raw's Old English course given at Keele University in the 1970s and 80s. This book is intended for students beginning Anglo-Saxon studies and was used in a Language Lab set-up. Audio files (MP3s - also submitted) accompany the…
A Programmed Course in Old English (Audio) - B. Raw (University of Keele)
These are the audio files to accompany Barbara Raw's language lab based course entitled 'A Programmed Course in Old English' developed at the University of Keele in the 70s and 80s. Voices also of John Levitt and Andrew Warne. The set is incomplete…
Bodleian, Junius 11 Manuscript
Low resolution images of Bodleian, MS Junius 11 - also known as the Cædmon Manuscript. Decsribed by Ker (1957) pp. 406-408 and dated as s. x/xi. Paginated with contents as follows: pp. 1-212 Old English poems 'Genesis', 'Exodus', and 'Daniel'. Pp.…
Bodleian, MS Rawl. Q. e. 20
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…
Bodleian, MS Bodley 579 - Additions to the Leofric Missal
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/.
Bodleian, MS Auct. F. 4. 32 - St. Dunstan's Classbook'
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);…
Bodleian, MS Auct. D 2. 16
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…
Oxford, MS St John's College 154
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, MS St John's College 28
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.