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Mary Swan and Elaine M. Treharne, eds.
Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century.
Published Cambridge U.P., 2000.
Series: Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, no. 30.
ISBN 0521623723;
ISBN-13 9780521623728.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: University Press, Cambridge.
Size: 158x234x18mm.
Page count: text x,213pp; plates 11pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good to very good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the dustjacket, edges and corners a bit ruffled; the book itself doesn’t look heavily used, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £27.50
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[Publisher’s price £67.00]
Weight without packaging: 462g.

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Contents:
Treharne, Production & script of mss. containing religious texts in 1st half of 12th c.;
Irvine, Compilation & use of mss. containing OE in the 12th c.;
Swan, Ælfric's Catholic Homilies in the 12th c.;
Wilcox, Wulfstan & the 12th c.;
Terese, Mnemonic transmission of OE texts in post-Conquest period;
Proud, OE prose saints’ lives in the 12th c. — evidence of extant mss.;
Rosser, OE prose saints’ lives in the 12th c. — Life of Martin in Bodley 343;
Liuzza, Scribal habit — evidence of the OE Gospels;
Pulsiano, OE gloss of the Eadwine Psalter;
Collier, The Tremulous Worcester Hand & Gregory's Pastoral Care.

Illustrations: 11, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Indexes: Manuscripts; General.

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See also | Old English literature | Manuscript studies |
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