Volume XII: The Nowell Codex

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Volume XII: The Nowell Codex

With the publication of this volume the series fulfills its aim of making generally available in facsimile form the primary materials for a sound study of the text of the greatest of all surviving Old English poems - at the outset, in volume I, the Thorkelin transcripts, and now the unique manuscript itself. But this volume does more than that. For the first time it provides a facsimile of the whole manuscript which, belonging to the end of the tenth century or the beginning of the eleventh, contains besides BEOWULF some other vernacular texts of the highest interest.

From the publisher's website: http://www.rosenkilde-bagger.dk

This is the second manuscript, containing ff. 94-209.

A homily on St. Christopher 94-98

Marvels of the East 98v-106v

A letter from Alexander to Aristotle 107-131v

Beowulf 132-201v

Part of a poem about Judith 202-209