De situ Dunelmi : manuscript poem
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- 20 lines of Old English alliterative verse describing the city of Durham, England, and mentioning St. Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede. Following the poem are 2 1/2 lines in prose relating to St. Cuthbert. Dealer's correspondence with Neil Ker, a paper by Donald K. Fry, "A newly discovered version of the Old English poem DURHAM," 1992; and a paper by Daniel Paul O'Donnell, "Junius's knowledge of the Old English poem DURHAM," accompany the text.
Description
Uniform title | Durham |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | 5 pages |
Place | California |
Publication date | [1640 - 1677?]; [ca. 1660] |
Issuance | monographic |
Language | English, Old (ca. 450-1100) |
Creators/Contributors
Associated with | Junius, Franciscus, 1589-1677 |
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Subjects
Subject | Cuthbert, Saint, Bishop of Lindisfarne, ca. 635-687 |
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Subject | Bede, The Venerable, Saint, 673-735 |
Subject | Fry, Donald K |
Subject | Ker, N. R. (Neil Ripley) |
Subject | O'Donnell, Daniel Paul |
Subject | English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 |
Subject | English literature |
Subject | Durham (England) |
Bibliographic information
Note | Neil Ker identifies the hand of the transcriber as that of Francis Junius, the leading Old English scholar of his day. It is not known where Junius obtained the text. There were two manuscript versions copied in the twelfth century: Cambridge, University Library, Ff. 1.27 (C), and London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius D. xx (V)., the latter almost completely destroyed in the Cottonian fire of 1731. Its version is known solely from George Hickes's 1705 edition (H.) This transcription is evidently based on a now-lost manuscript. |
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Note | In Anglo-Saxon with a Latin translation in the second column. |
Note | Purchased, [1966?] |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/gh328kv5465 |
Location | Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305 |
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- Copyright
- Public Domain.
- License
- This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights (Public Domain Mark 1.0).
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