The Text of the Old Testament 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. Examination of the complex patterns of variation may illuminate important aspects of monastic, ecclesiastical and intellectual history. This book is the first to tackle questions about the transmission of the Vulgate Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England. Following an introduction which explains the wider continental context in which the dissemination of the Latin scriptures occurred, Richard Marsden goes on to analyse twenty surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscripts including the Codex Amiatinus, one of the greatest English books and the earliest surviving complete Vulgate Bible. A further chapter examines the evidence of the earliest translations of scripture into Old English. Dr Marsden's study presents the first comprehensive listing and collation of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts of the Old Testament and affirms the importance of textual history as a dimension of wider Anglo-Saxon history.

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"Marsden concludes that the history of the Old Testament text in Anglo-Saxon England not only reflects the intellectual history of the period but is part of it." New Testament Abstracts

"An impressive feat of sustained scholarship and rigorous thinking, The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England is a major contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies. The book is remarkably error-free considering its length and complexity; it is handsomely produced in the usual Cambridge style, with useful indices of manuscript and scriptural citations." Envoi

"...this study will remain the authoritative examination of its topic. It is recommended with great enthusiasm to paleographers, historians of exegesis, biblical-textual historians, and historians of Anglo-Saxon England." Kevin Madigan, Church History

"The prose is lucid, the scope comprehensive, and the organization well conceived. Marsden's learning is wide, and deep..." J.R. Hall, Speculum

"This learned, meticulous, and beautifully printed volume provides scholars with an authoritative guide to the texts of the Vulgate Old Testament that were available in Anglo-Saxon England and the relationships between them. It is a work of exmeplary clarity from its initial assignation of sigla to the twenty extant manuscripts and numerous fragments to its detailed critical textual analysis of all parts of the extant texts and the helpful historical and cultural background provided for each manuscript and fragment. ...Richard Marsden's study extends not just to extant manuscripts but also to what can be deduced from the scriptual quotations in the leading Anglo-Saxon exegetical , hagiographical, and historical works and to the texts that underly the surviving Old English translations of books of the Old Testament." N.P. Brooks, American Historical Review

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521031257
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/28/2006
Series: Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England Series , #15
Pages: 536
Product dimensions: 5.98 (w) x 9.02 (h) x 1.18 (d)

	List of illustrations
	Preface
	List of abbreviations
	List of manuscript sigla
1	Introduction	1
2	Early Southumbrian scholars and writers	61
3	Early Northumbria: Wearmouth-Jarrow and Ceolfrith's pandects	76
4	The Codex Amiatinus, a sister pandect and the Bibles at Vivarium	107
5	The Ceolfrithian text	140
6	Early Northumbrian scholars and writers	202
7	Part-Bibles of the eighth and ninth centuries	236
8	The Egerton codex	262
9	Wisdom books in non-biblical manuscripts	307
10	The late period: the 'Royal' Bible	321
11	The late period: Bible fragments	379
12	Vernacular evidence for the Old Testament	395
13	Conclusion	444
	Appendix	450
	Bibliography	452
	Index of manuscripts	472
	Scriptural index	477
	General index	489

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