them unfamiliar to copyists of the Beowulf manuscript in its later recensions. The Beowulf manuscript is known as the Nowell Codex, gaining its name from the 16th-century owner and scholar Laurence Nowell. As a result, the manuscript pages have been bound in paper frames to prevent further deterioration. The Transmission of Beowulf: Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior. The manuscript was badly damaged in a 1731 fire at the aptly named Ashburnam House.
The date of the composition of Beowulf is unknown, but the manuscript, the only surviving copy of the poem, was copied c. For the first time in the history of Beowulf scholarship, the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole surviving manuscript: the prose Passion of Saint Christopher, The Wonders of the East, The Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle, and (following Beowulf) the poem Judith. Goodreads members who liked The Beowulf Manuscript also liked: Beow. Christopher, a description of the Wonders of the East, Alexander’s Letter to Aristotle, and two poems, Beowulf and a verse translation of the book of Judith. Find books like The Beowulf Manuscript from the world’s largest community of readers. The Beowulf manuscript, also known as the Nowell Codex after sixteenth century antiquarian Laurence Nowell who owned it at one point, follows on 94r and contains five Old English works, a life of St. 390x219 - Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of beowulf and what it means. The first, the Southwick Codex, occupies the first ninety-three folios. Beowulf Sparknotes Chapter 1 Summary / Although many are joyous at his arrival, one jealous dane denounces beowulf and his reputation, at which point beowulf boasts about his.
The manuscript, London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.xv, contains two separate codices that have been bound together. The British Library has put the Beowulf manuscript on line.
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