The common origin of Ælfric fragments at New Haven, Oxford, Cambridge, and Bloomington

• Published in: Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope pp. 285 - 326
• Main Authors: Collins, Rowland L, Clemoes, Peter
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Toronto University of Toronto Press 29.05.2015
• Subjects: Abbreviations; Academic libraries; Agricultural products; Agriculture; Anatomy; Animal products; Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Applied arts; Arts; Behavioral sciences; Biological sciences; Biology; Bookbinding; Catholicism; Christianity; Communications; Communications media; Cultural anthropology; Cultural institutions; Currency; Digital media; Digital publications; Economics; Graphemes; Hair; Hides; Integumentary system; Language; Libraries; Linguistic morphology; Linguistics; Macroeconomics; Manual arts; Money; Orthographies; Parchment; Punctuation; Religion; School libraries; Scrip; Social sciences; Spiritual belief systems; Theoretical linguistics
• ISBN: 1442652098; 9781442652095
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442632714-018

In recent years, seven fragments of Anglo-Saxon parchment have come to light which, although in four widely separated places today, were probably parts of the same manuscript originally. Dated by their script to the beginning of the eleventh century, they contain portions of homilies and lives of saints by Ælfric, whose quality as a writer of late Old English prose Professor Pope has done so much to elucidate. The kinship of these fragments establishes that the manuscript (or just possibly manuscripts) of which they were a part had important features which no other surviving manuscript of Ælfric’s works possesses. The