Language Change, Writing and Textual Interference in Post-Conquest Old English Manuscripts
Oliver Martin Traxel
Broschiertes Buch

Language Change, Writing and Textual Interference in Post-Conquest Old English Manuscripts

The Evidence of Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 1.33

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This book analyses one of the few textual sources from twelfth-century England written in the vernacular: a manuscript now in Cambridge, University Library, bearing the shelf-mark li. 1. 33. It contains forty-two Old English texts, mostly saints' lives composed by Ælfric, abbot of Eynsham (c.950-c.1010). Both palaeographical and linguistic evidence is used to establish the number of scribes and the possible origin of the various manuscript parts. A detailed examination of additions and alterations to the central part as well as a discussion of significant changes to the rest of the manuscript...