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See also:VERCELLI See also:BOOK (CODEX VERCELLENSIS)
, an See also:Early 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, See also:Dream of the See also: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, See also:Piedmont, by a See also:German jurist See also:Friedrich Blume, in 1822, and was first described in his Iter Italicum (See also:Berlin and See also:Stettin, 4 vols., 1824-36)
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An untenable explanation of the presence of the MS. at Vercelli suggested that it had been brought there by Johannes Scotus See also:Erigena
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But the See also:hand-See also:writing See also:dates from the beginning of the 11th See also:century, See also:long after his See also:death
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According to Dr See also: 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 . See also:Napier in Zeitschrift See also:fur deutsches Altertum (Berlin, 1889, vol . 21, new See also:series; old series, vol . 33, p . 66), for a See also:collation of Walker's text with the MS . For the individual poems see also See also:CYNEWULF . |
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