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See also: English MS. containing, besides homilies, a number of poetical and imaginative pieces: Andreas, The Fates of the Apostles, Address of the Soul to the See also: Body, Falseness of Men, Dream of the Rood, Elene and a See also: prose See also: Life of Guthlac
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It was found in the See also: cathedral library of See also: Vercelli, Piedmont, by a See also: German jurist See also: Friedrich Blume, in 1822, and was first described in his Iter Italicum (Berlin and See also: 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 See also: hand-writing See also: dates from the beginning of the 11th century, long after his See also: death
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According to Dr See also: Walker the MS. probably belonged to the hospice for English pilgrims, founded, together with the monastery of St Andrew, by
See also: Cardinal Jacopo Guala-Bicchieri (d
.
1227), a native of Vercelli and See also: bishop of the city, in 1219, on his return from See also: England, where he had been papal See also: legate from 1216 to 1218
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The cardinal, a See also: man of wide learning, possessed a large library, which he See also: 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
.
See also: Cooper's Report of Rynceri Foedera for 1836; by J
.
M
.
Kemble, The
See also: Poetry of the Codex Vercellensis, with an English See also: translation (Aelfric See also: 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 ( See also: Leipzig, 1894), vol. ii
.
Codex Vercellensis, by Dr See also: Richard Walker (Leipzig, 1894), is a facsimile of the MS
.
For the description and See also: history of the MS. see also Walker's Grundriss
.
. . der A.S
.
Litteratur (1885), pp
.
237-42, and A
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See also: Napier in Zeitschrift fur deutsches Altertum (Berlin, 1889, vol
.
21, new series; old series, vol
.
33, p
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66), for a collation of Walker's text with the MS . For the individual poems see alsoSee also: CYNEWULF
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