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Readings from the Thorkelin Transcripts of Beowulf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Kemp Malone
Kemp Malone*
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore 18, Md.
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Thanks to subventions from the American Philosophical Society and the Johns Hopkins University, I was able to spend three months of the year 1948 in Copenhagen, where I checked against the originals (in the Great Royal Library) Julius Zupitza's readings from the A and B transcripts of Beowulf.1 In the following I report my findings, except for those cases where I have neither additions nor corrections to make. For convenience of reference I give my readings and comments by line of verse, not by MS. page and line.21 conform to Z's practice of giving the A and B readings in italics.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 64 , Issue 5: Issue 1 part 1 , December 1949 , pp. 1190 - 1218
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1949

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1 The Zupitza readings were published in 1882, in the so-called Autotypes (EETS, Orig. Ser., 77), where they appear in both text and footnotes. In this collation I refer to Zupitza, by abbreviation, as Z.

2 The MS. is, of course, Cotton Vitellius A xv (British Museum).

3 But Z italicized these readings only in his footnotes; in his text he made no distinction between the readings taken from A or B and those taken from the MS. itself.