The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England

By:

Richard Marsden

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England

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The early medieval Vulgate Bible had no fixed textual form - multiple copying resulted in a multitude of forms. This book is the first to tackle questions about the transmission of the Vulgate Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England. By tracing the history of the text in the surviving Latin manuscripts we can illuminate monastic and intellectual history. Following an introduction which explains the wider continental history in which the dissemination of the Latin scriptures occurred, Richard Marsden goes on to analyse twenty surviving manuscripts including the Codex Amiatinus, one of the greatest English books and the earliest surviving complete Vulgate Bible. The book provides the first comprehensive listing and collation of surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscripts of the Old Testament; it also establishes textual history as a dimension of wider Anglo-Saxon history.

Release date Australia

November 2nd, 1995

Author

Richard Marsden

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

9 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

536

Series

Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England

Dimensions

152x229x33

ISBN-13

9780521464772

Product ID

1770372

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