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VERCELLI BOOK (CODEX VERCELLENSIS)

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VERCELLI See also:BOOK (CODEX VERCELLENSIS) , an See also:Early See also:English MS. containing, besides homilies, a number of poetical and imaginative pieces: Andreas, The Fates of the Apostles, Address of the Soul to the See also:Body, Falseness of Men, See also:Dream of the See also:Rood, Elene and a See also:prose See also:Life of Guthlac. It was found in the See also:cathedral library of Vercelli, See also:Piedmont, by a See also:German jurist See also:Friedrich Blume, in 1822, and was first described in his Iter Italicum (See also:Berlin and See also:Stettin, 4 vols., 1824-36). An untenable explanation of the presence of the MS. at Vercelli suggested that it had been brought there by Johannes Scotus See also:Erigena. But the See also:hand-See also:writing See also:dates from the beginning of the 11th See also:century, See also:long after his See also:death. According to Dr See also:Walker the MS. probably belonged to the See also:hospice for English pilgrims, founded, together with the monastery of St See also:Andrew, by See also:Cardinal Jacopo Guala-Bicchieri (d. 1227), a native of Vercelli and See also:bishop of the See also:city, in 1219, on his return from See also:England, where he had been papal See also:legate from 1216 to 1218. The cardinal, a See also:man of wide learning, possessed a large library, which he See also:left to the monastery; and the Vercelli codex may well have been included in it. Its contents were partially printed (by See also:Benjamin See also:Thorpe from Blume's transcript) in Appendix B to C. P. See also:Cooper's See also:Report of Rynceri Foedera for 1836; by J. M. See also:Kemble, The See also:Poetry of the Codex Vercellensis, with an English See also:translation (Aelfric See also:Soc., 1843-56), and in a better See also:text based directly on the MS. by Walker in his edition of C.

W. M. Grein's Bibliothek der A.S. Poesie (See also:

Leipzig, 1894), vol. ii. Codex Vercellensis, by Dr See also:Richard Walker (Leipzig, 1894), is a facsimile of the MS. For the description and See also:history of the MS. see also Walker's Grundriss . . . der A.S. Litteratur (1885), pp. 237-42, and A. See also:Napier in Zeitschrift See also:fur deutsches Altertum (Berlin, 1889, vol. 21, new See also:series; old series, vol. 33, p.

66), for a See also:

collation of Walker's text with the MS. For the individual poems see also See also:CYNEWULF.

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