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Nowell Codex

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The Nowell Codex is the second of two manuscripts comprising the bound volume Cotton Vitellius A.xv, one of the four major Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscripts. [1]

28 relations: Alfred the Great, Augustine of Hippo, Beowulf, Bodleian Library, Book of Judith, British Library, Cotton library, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie, Exeter Book, Franciscus Junius (the younger), Gospel of Nicodemus, Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin, Hampshire, Judith (poem), Junius manuscript, Laurence Nowell, Liber Monstrorum, Manuscript, Old English literature, Saint Christopher, Saint Quentin, Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, Solomon and Saturn, Southwick Priory, Vercelli Book, Vitellius, Wonders of the East.

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great (Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd, "elf counsel" or "wise elf"; 849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

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Augustine of Hippo

Saint Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.

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Beowulf

Beowulf is an Old English epic story consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.

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Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe.

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Book of Judith

The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded from Jewish texts and assigned by Protestants to the Apocrypha.

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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.

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Cotton library

The Cotton or Cottonian library is a collection of manuscripts once owned by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton MP (1571–1631), an antiquarian and bibliophile.

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Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (est. 2010) is a series of books published by Harvard University Press in collaboration with the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

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Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie

Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie (born Brooklyn 9 May 1907, died 23 March 1970) was a scholar, noted especially for his work editing Old English poetry.

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Exeter Book

The Exeter Book, Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501, also known as the Codex Exoniensis, is a tenth-century book or codex which is an anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry.

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Franciscus Junius (the younger)

Franciscus Junius (29 January 1591 – 1677), also known as François du Jon, was a pioneer of Germanic philology.

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Gospel of Nicodemus

The Gospel of Nicodemus, also known as the Acts of Pilate (Acta Pilati; Πράξεις Πιλάτου), is an apocryphal gospel claimed to have been derived from an original Hebrew work written by Nicodemus, who appears in the Gospel of John as an associate of Jesus.

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Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin

Grímur Jónsson Thorkelín (8 October 1752 – 4 March 1829) was an Icelandic–Danish scholar, who became the National Archivist of Denmark and Professor of Antiquities at Copenhagen University.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Judith (poem)

The Old English poem Judith describes the beheading of Assyrian general Holofernes by Israelite Judith of Bethulia.

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Junius manuscript

The Junius manuscript is one of the four major codices of Old English literature.

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Laurence Nowell

Laurence (or Lawrence) Nowell (c. 1515 – c. 1571) was an English antiquarian, cartographer and pioneering scholar of Anglo-Saxon language and literature.

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Liber Monstrorum

The Liber Monstrorum is a late seventh-or early eighth-century Anglo-Latin catalogue of marvellous creatures, which may be connected with the Anglo-Saxon scholar Aldhelm.

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand -- or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten -- as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Old English literature

Old English literature or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses literature written in Old English, in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

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Saint Christopher

Saint Christopher (Ἅγιος Χριστόφορος, Ágios Christóforos) is venerated by several Christian denominations as a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Decius (reigned 249–251) or alternatively under the Roman Emperor Maximinus II Dacian (reigned 308–313).

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Saint Quentin

Saint Quentin (Quintinus; died 287 AD) also known as Quentin of Amiens, is an early Christian saint.

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Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (22 January 1570/1 – 6 May 1631) of Conington Hall in the parish of Conington in Huntingdonshire, England,Kyle, Chris & Sgroi was a Member of Parliament and an antiquarian who founded the Cotton library.

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Solomon and Saturn

Solomon and Saturn is the generic name given to four Old English works, which present a dialogue of riddles between Solomon, the king of Israel, and Saturn, identified in two of the poems as a prince of the Chaldeans.

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Southwick Priory

Southwick Priory or Our Lady at Southwick was a priory of Augustinian canons founded in Portchester Castle on Portsmouth Harbour and later transferred north to Southwick, Hampshire, England.

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Vercelli Book

The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest of the four Old English Poetic Codices (the others being the Junius manuscript, the Exeter Book, and the Nowell Codex).

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Vitellius

Vitellius (Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Augustus; 24 September 15 – 22 December 69 AD) was Roman Emperor for eight months, from 16 April to 22 December AD 69.

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Wonders of the East

The Wonders of the East or The Marvels of the East is an Old English prose piece, written around AD 1000.

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Beowulf (manuscript), Beowulf manuscript, British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv, Cotton Vitellius A. xv, Cotton Vitellius A.xv.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowell_Codex

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