Old English Homilies from MS Bodley 343

ISBN-13: 9780197223048 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 242 str.

Bodleian Library;Early English Text Society; Susan Irvine

Opis

This edition presents several Old English texts from an Oxford manuscript. Unique to the manuscript, the works have not been edited since 1909 (when only a text and translation were supplied). Four of the texts are by the important late tenth-century writer AElfric, the other three are anonymous. The edition offers detailed information about the manuscript, its language, and the background, sources, and analogues of the individual works.

Recenzje

Susan Irvine's new edition of seven of the Belfour pieces ... is greatly to be welcomed. ... In it we have a much improved text, better laid out and punctuated, and cleansed of Belfour's occasional inaccuracies and the apparently meaningless but very frequent acute accents with which the manuscript text is sprinkled ... this edition is a model of exactitude and responsible scholarship.