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The Thorkelin Transcripts of Beowulf in Facsimile
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- Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
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Transcription
Edition of Old English Text - Language(s)
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Old English
English
Latin
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- Transcriber
- Thorkelín, Grímur Jónsson
- Transcriber
- Matthews, James (uncertain)
- Textual Editor
- Malone, Kemp
- Writer of Prefatory Matter
- Colgrave, Bertram
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- City
- Copenhagen
- Publisher
- Rosenkilde and Bagger
- Date
- 1951
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- Relationships
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(Upstream) Reproduces in new context -> [Thorkelin B transcription], Thorkelín, Grímur Jónsson (1789-1791)(Upstream) Reproduces in new context -> [Thorkelin A transcription], Matthews, James (uncertain) (1787)
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- Identifying Numbers
- Fry 1386; GR 140.
- Descriptive Notes
Book is x + 35 + 2 (marked A and B) + 90 + 1 (marked C) + 140 (marked 1a-140a) pp. Volume 1 of the Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile (EEMF) series.
Malone's thorough analytical introduction (pp. 3-32 of the first Arabic numeral sequence) precedes the photographic reproductions of the two earliest complete transcriptions of Beowulf from British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.xv: first, the transcription known as "Thorkelin A" (commissioned by Grímur Jónsson Thorkelín and done by an unknown copyist believed to have been James Matthews of the British Museum), and then the one known as "Thorkelin B" (done by Thorkelín himself).
- Authentication
BAM.
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- Last Updated
- 03/27/2022