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An integrated re-examination of the dating of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2003

Leslie Lockett
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame

Extract

Students of late Anglo-Saxon manuscripts are fortunate to have recourse to a number of fundamental studies which chronicle changes in the various arts of manuscript production during the tenth and early eleventh centuries. These studies provide a background against which to assess the work of individual craftsmen (scribes, initiallers, illustrators) who produced English manuscripts of this period. In the attempt to date a manuscript, each of these studies provides a spectrum of changing practices against which one can measure the most probable date of execution for any aspect of the manuscript. Additionally, if we use these studies as a group rather than one by one, they have much to tell us about the chronological circumstances of the creation of an entire codex as a composite work of art produced by a team of craftsmen.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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