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EXETER BOOK [Codex Exoniensis]

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 67 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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EXETER
EXETER, EARL, MARQUESS AND DUKE OF

EXETER See also:
BOOK
BOOK [Codex Exoniensis] , an See also:

ANTHOLOGY

anthology of Anglo-Saxon See also:

POETRY

poetry presented to Exeter See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral by See also:

LEOFRIC (d. 1057)

Leofric,' See also:

bishop of Exeter, See also:

England, from 1050 to 1071, and still in the See also:

possession of the See also:

dean and See also:

CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter. It contains some legal documents, the poems entitled Crist, Guthlac, See also:

Phoenix, Juliana, The Wanderer and others, and concludes with between eighty and ninety See also:

RIDDLES (A.S. raedan, to interpret)

riddles. It was first described in See also:

HUMPHREY (or HUMFREY), LAWRENCE (1527?-1590)

Humphrey Wanley's Catalogus .. (1705) in detail but with many inaccuracies; subsequently by J. J. See also:

Conybeare, See also:

Account of a Saxon See also:

MANUSCRIPT

Manuscript (a See also:

paper read in 1812; printed with some extracts from the MS. in Archaeologia, vol. xvii. pp. 18o-197, 1814). A See also:

COMPLETE

complete transcript made (1831) by See also:

Robert See also:

Chambers is in the See also:

BRITISH

British Museum (Addit. MS. 9067). It was first printed in 1842 by See also:

Benjamin See also:

Thorpe for the See also:

SOC

Soc. of Antiq., See also:

LONDON

London, as Codex Exoniensis . . . with an See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

TRANSLATION

Translation, Notes and Indexes.

More See also:

RECENT

recent See also:

EDITIONS

editions, chiefly based on Thorpe's See also:

TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text, are:—in Chr. Grein's Bibliothek der A.S. Poesie (vol. iii. See also:

PART

part 1, ed. R. Wiilker, See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1897, with a bibliography), J. Schipper in See also:

Pfeiffer's Germania, vol. xix. pp. 327-339, and See also:

ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

Israel Gollancz, The Exeter Book, pt. i. (1895), with English translation, for the See also:

Early English Text Society. A detailed account, with See also:

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

bibliographies of the 'See also:

SEPARATE

separate poems, is given by R. See also:

Walker, in Grundriss ... der A.S. Literatur, pp. 218-236 (Leipzig, 1885) ; see also the introduction to The Crist of See also:

, edited by Prof. A. S. See also:

Cook, with introduction, notes and a glossary (See also:

Boston, U.S.A., 1900). For the poems contained in the MS. see alSO CYNEWULF and RIDDLES.

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