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EXETER BOOK [Codex Exoniensis]

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 67 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
EXETER BOOK [Codex Exoniensis] , an
anthology
  of Anglo-Saxon poetry presented to
Exeter
  cathedral by Leofric,' bishop of
Exeter
 , England, from 1050 to 1071, and still in the possession of the dean and chapter. It contains some legal documents, the poems entitled Crist, Guthlac, Phoenix, Juliana, The Wanderer and others, and concludes with between eighty and ninety riddles. It was first described in
Humphrey
  Wanley's Catalogus
.. (1705) in detail but with many inaccuracies; subsequently by J. J. Conybeare, Account of a Saxon Manuscript (a
paper
  read in 1812; printed with some extracts from the MS. in Archaeologia, vol. xvii. pp. 18o-197, 1814). A complete transcript made (1831) by Robert Chambers is in the British Museum (Addit. MS. 9067). It was first printed in 1842 by Benjamin
Thorpe
  for the Soc. of Antiq., London, as Codex Exoniensis . . . with an English Translation, Notes and Indexes. More
recent
  editions, chiefly based on
Thorpe
 's text, are:in Chr. Grein's Bibliothek der A.S. Poesie (vol. iii. part 1, ed. R. Wiilker,
Leipzig
 , 1897, with a bibliography), J. Schipper in Pfeiffer's Germania, vol. xix. pp. 327-339, and
Israel
  Gollancz, The Exeter Book, pt. i. (1895), with English translation, for the Early English Text Society.
A detailed account, with bibliographies of the '
separate
  poems, is given by R.
Walker
 , in Grundriss ... der A.S. Literatur, pp. 218-236 (
Leipzig
 , 1885) ; see also the introduction to The Crist of Cynewulf ... , edited by Prof. A. S. Cook, with introduction, notes and a glossary (Boston, U.S.A., 1900). For the poems contained in the MS. see alSO CYNEWULF and RIDDLES.


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