The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England

The early medieval Vulgate Bible had no fixed textual form--multiple copying resulted in a multitude of forms. This book is the first to describe the transmission of the Vulgate Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England. Following an introduction that explains the wider continental history in which the dissemination of the scriptures occurred, Richard Marsden analyzes nineteen surviving Latin manuscripts and further translations of scripture into Old English. His book illuminates important areas of monastic and intellectual life, and establishes textual history as a dimension of wider Anglo-Saxon history.

Author: Richard Marsden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/02/2006
Pages: 536
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.71lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780521031257

This title is not returnable