Tenth century illustrated manuscript in the collections of the Bodleian Library
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An illustration of patriarch Kenan, from the Junius manuscript.
The Junius manuscript is one of the four major codices of Old English literature. Written in the 10th century, it contains poetry dealing with Biblical subjects in Old English, the vernacular language of Anglo-Saxon England. Modern editors have determined that the manuscript is made of four poems, to which they have given the titles Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan.[1] The identity of their author is unknown. For a long time, scholars believed them to be the work of Cædmon, accordingly calling the book the Cædmon manuscript. This theory has been discarded due to the significant differences between the poems.
The manuscript owes its current designation to the Anglo-Dutch scholar Franciscus Junius, who was the first to edit its contents and who bequeathed it to Oxford University. It is kept in the Bodleian Library under shelfmark MS Junius 11.
^Saltzman, Benjamin A. (January 2017). "Junius Manuscript (Encyclopedia of British Medieval Literature, 2017)". Encyclopedia of British Medieval Literature.
Library under shelfmark MS Junius 11. The codex now referred to as the "Juniusmanuscript" was formerly called the "Cædmon manuscript" after an early theory...
contained in the JuniusManuscript. The poem is located in a codex of Old English biblical poetry called the JuniusManuscript. The JuniusManuscript consists...
The third transcript (MS Junius 105, currently in the Bodleian Library) is of the Judith poem and was made by Franciscus Junius between 1621 and 1651. A...
the period. There are four major poetic manuscripts: The Juniusmanuscript, also known as the Cædmon manuscript, is an illustrated collection of poems...
survive in the JuniusManuscript, which has been held in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford since 1677. The sole manuscript containing Genesis...
major manuscripts of Old English poetry, along with the Vercelli Book in Vercelli, Italy, the Nowell Codex in the British Library, and the Junius manuscript...
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important are the Beowulf manuscript, Exeter Book, Vercelli Book, and the Juniusmanuscript. Although the dates of composition of most of this poetry remain uncertain...
Genesis B and Genesis A survive in the partially illustrated JuniusManuscript. The manuscript is incomplete, having in particular missing pages (conjectured...
the only surviving late Anglo-Saxon manuscript with extensive Old Testament illustrations. The Juniusmanuscript is from a few decades earlier, and also...
translations were used for the illustrated Old English Hexateuch. The Juniusmanuscript (initially ascribed to Cædmon) was copied about 1000. It includes...
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[click on links in left margin] MS Junius 1 images available on Digital Bodleian MS Junius 1 in the Bodleian Libraries catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts...
poetry. The first three volumes were mainly edited by Krapp (The JuniusManuscript in 1931, and in 1932 The Vercelli Book and The Paris Psalter and Meters...
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