Ebook: A manual of Old English prose [thesis]

This dissertation is a reference work for research in the Old English literary prose, exclusive of Ælfric and Wulfstan. Legal documents, such as charters and boundaries have been omitted, as have Anglo-Latin texts. Each text is described, and its first line given, wherever possible. Each text description includes cross-references to the manuscripts in which the text appears, editions which include it (exclusive of student readers) and criticism which discusses it. A list of the manuscripts which contain Old English prose, in the order established by Ker’s "Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon" is included, and cross-referenced to the texts. Annotated bibliographies of editions and criticism of the prose, complete through 1978, are included and cross-referenced to the texts. Four indices: to first line, modern title, manuscript title and subject of homilies, are provided to assist the scholar in locating specific texts.