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    The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest of the four Old English Poetic Codices (the others being the Junius manuscript in the Bodleian Library, the Exeter...
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    Vercelli (Italian pronunciation: [verˈtʃɛlli] ; Piedmontese: Vërsèj pronounced [vərˈsɛj]) is a city and comune of 46,552 inhabitants (January 1, 2017)...
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    the Vercelli Book in Vercelli, Italy, the Nowell Codex in the British Library, and the Junius manuscript in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The book was...
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  • bear his acrostic mark: the Exeter Book holds Cynewulf's Juliana and Christ II (The Ascension) and the Vercelli Book his Elene and Fates of the Apostles...
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    'pole', or more specifically 'crucifix'. Preserved in the tenth-century Vercelli Book, the poem may be as old as the eighth-century Ruthwell Cross, and is...
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    Eusebius of Vercelli (c. 2 March 283 – 1 August 371) was a bishop from Sardinia and is counted a saint. Along with Athanasius, he affirmed the divinity...
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  • Chapter Manuscript 3501. The Vercelli Book contains both poetry and prose; it is not known how it came to be in Vercelli. The Beowulf Manuscript (British...
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    Guala Bicchieri (category People from Vercelli)
    fact that the premises of Vercelli Cathedral Museum hold the famed Vercelli Book, one of the few extant manuscripts of early English (Anglo-Saxon) writings...
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    poetry (a codex is a book in modern format, as opposed to a scroll): the Junius Manuscript, the Vercelli Book, the Exeter Book, and the Nowell Codex...
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    Saint Albert, Albert of Vercelli or Alberto Avogadro, was a canon lawyer and saint. He was Bishop of Bobbio and Bishop of Vercelli, and served as mediator...
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  • The Vercelli homilies are a collection of twenty-three prose entries within the Vercelli book and exist as an important example of Old English prose structure...
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    Vercelli Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Vercelli, Cattedrale di Sant'Eusebio) is the principal church of the city of Vercelli in Piedmont, Italy, and the...
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  • general theories concerning its origins. Andreas is the first poem in the Vercelli Book, and is followed by a poem entitled The Fates of the Apostles, written...
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    refers to two manuscript codices preserved in the cathedral library of Vercelli, in the Piedmont Region, Italy. The Old Latin Codex Vercellensis Evangeliorum...
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    "The Fates of the Apostles" (Vercelli Book, fol. 52b–54a) is the shortest of Cynewulf’s known canon at 122 lines long. It is a brief martyrology of the...
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    manuscript (erroneously referred to as Caedmon manuscript) Exeter Book Liber Monstrorum Vercelli Book "Cotton MS Vitellius A XV". British Library. The British...
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    catalogue of the Cottonian collection (Harley 6018, fol. 162v), as "a Saxon book of divers saints lives and the Alphabett of the old Danish letter amonghs...
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    beheld all that." Kemble's revised reading is based on the poem of the Vercelli Book, to the extent that missing words in each are supplied from the other...
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    Old English believed to date from the 7th century, preserved in the Vercelli Book Heliand, an epic poem which retells the life of Jesus Christ in Old...
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    one Anglo-Saxon language fragment has been discovered as well in the Vercelli Book. No known single manuscript contains a complete text of any variant;...
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    to survive from medieval England, the other main witness being the Vercelli Book. Their name derives from Blickling Hall in Norfolk, which once housed...
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    p. 59. Fr. Paolo O. Pirlo, SHMI (1997). "St. Venerable Bede". My First Book of Saints. Sons of Holy Mary Immaculate - Quality Catholic Publications....
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    and early 11th centuries, known as the Cædmon manuscript, the Vercelli Book, the Exeter Book, and the Beowulf manuscript. While the poetry that has survived...
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    Micro-Texts, ed. by Ursula Lenker and Lucia Kornexl, Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series, 67 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019), pp. 329-46; doi:10.1515/9783110630961...
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    Bald's Leechbook (redirect from Leech Book)
    of the Old English word lǣċe-bōc ('book of medical prescriptions', literally Old English lǣċe 'physician' + bōc 'book'). The Leechbook's name comes from...
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    Christ and Satan Vercelli Book Andreas "The Fates of the Apostles" "Soul and Body I" Dream of the Rood Elene "Homiletic Fragment I" Exeter Book "Christ I" "Christ...
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  • poems: Soul and Body I, which is found in the Vercelli Book, and Soul and Body II, found in the Exeter Book. It is one of the oldest poems to have survived...
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  • Cynewulf's four signed poems. It is the last of six poems appearing in the Vercelli manuscript, which also contains The Fates of the Apostles, Andreas, Soul...
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  • mainly edited by Krapp (The Junius Manuscript in 1931, and in 1932 The Vercelli Book and The Paris Psalter and Meters of Boethius), but he soon passed away...
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    Anglo-Saxon literature Exeter Book History of the English Bible Nowell Codex Old English Bible translations Vercelli Book Saltzman, Benjamin A. (January...
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