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Early English Manuscripts In Facsimile Collection
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Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile:
A finding aid of materials held in the Rare Book & Texana Collections.
About the Collection:
"The series Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile was published for more than fifty years during the period 1951 - 2002. The aims of Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile are to provide scholars throughout the world with the means of consulting primary sources of information about the civilization of England in the Middle Ages without the need for long journeys to distant libraries, and also by the high quality of reproduction to reduce to a minimum the amount of handling to which the priceless and often delicate originals are subject.
The emphasis is placed upon pre-Conquest England, from which period the volumes have been chosen to represent the varied range of Anglo-Saxon civilization as fully as possible, with the result that they exhibit no less than a cross-section of Anglo-Saxon achievement. They include poetry, works of King Alfred and his contemporaries, an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, illuminated Gospel Books and Psalters, Bible translation, the earliest manuscript of the Benedictine Rule, the earliest examples of English lexicography, computistical, astronomical, and geographical material, a rare example of a monastic Liber Vitae, as well as legal, liturgical, medical, and homiletic works."
From the publisher's website: http://www.rosenkilde-bagger.dk/
The Rare Book & Texana Collections at The University of North Texas has a complete collection of the Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile volumes. This finding aid is intended as a supplement to existing indexing to make the contents of these volumes more accessible to researchers.
Contents listing by volume:
Volume I: The Thorkelin Transcripts of Beowulf
Volume III: The Tollemache Orosius
Volume IV: The Peterborough Chronicle
Volume VII: Textus Roffensis, Part I
Volume VIII: The Paris Psalter
Volume X: The Blickling Homilies
Volume XI: Textus Roffensis, Part II
Volume XIII: Ælfric’s First Series of Catholic Homilies
Volume XIV: The Vespasian Psalter
Volume XV: The Rule of St Benedict
Volume XVII: A Wulfstan Manuscript
Volume XVIII: The Old English Illustrated Hexateuch
Volume XXI: An Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Illustrated Miscellany
Volume XXII: The Épinal, Erfurt, Werden, and Corpus Glossaries
Volume XXIII: Old English Verse Texts from Many Sources: A Comprehensive Collection
Volume XXIV: The Old English Version of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica
Volume XXV: The Copenhagen Wulfstan Collection
Volume XXVI: The Liber Vitae of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey, Winchester
Volume XXVII: The Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia
Volumes XXVIII and XXIX: The Codex Aureus, parts one and two
Other Old English resources in the Rare Book and Texana Collections
Compiled by Jay A. Smith, Spring 2009.