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VERCELLI BOOK (CODEX VERCELLENSIS)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 1017 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VERCELLI BOOK (CODEX VERCELLENSIS) , an Early English MS. containing, besides homilies, a number of poetical and imaginative pieces: Andreas, The Fates of the Apostles, Address of the Soul to the
Body
 , Falseness of Men, Dream of the Rood, Elene and a
prose
  Life of Guthlac. It was found in the cathedral library of
Vercelli
 , Piedmont, by a German jurist
Friedrich
  Blume, in 1822, and was first described in his Iter Italicum (Berlin and 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 Erigena. But the hand-writing
dates
  from the beginning of the 11th century, long after his death. According to Dr
Walker
  the MS. probably belonged to the hospice for English pilgrims, founded, together with the monastery of St Andrew, by Cardinal Jacopo Guala-Bicchieri (d. 1227), a native of Vercelli and bishop of the city, in 1219, on his return from England, where he had been papal legate from 1216 to 1218. The cardinal, a man of wide learning, possessed a large library, which he left to the monastery; and the Vercelli codex may well have been included in it.
Its contents were partially printed (by Benjamin
Thorpe
  from Blume's transcript) in Appendix B to C. P. Cooper's Report of Rynceri Foedera for 1836; by J. M. Kemble, The Poetry of the Codex Vercellensis, with an English
translation
  (Aelfric Soc., 1843-56), and in a better text based directly on the MS. by
Walker
  in his edition of C. W. M. Grein's Bibliothek der A.S. Poesie (
Leipzig
 , 1894), vol. ii. Codex Vercellensis, by Dr Richard Walker (
Leipzig
 , 1894), is a facsimile of the MS.
For the description and history of the MS. see also Walker's Grundriss . . . der A.S. Litteratur (1885), pp. 237-42, and A. Napier in Zeitschrift fur deutsches Altertum (Berlin, 1889, vol. 21, new
series
 ; old
series
 , vol. 33, p. 66), for a collation of Walker's text with the MS. For the individual poems see also CYNEWULF.


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