• Thumbnail for Laurence Nowell
    Laurence (or Lawrence) Nowell (1530 – c. 1570) was an English antiquarian, cartographer and pioneering scholar of the Old English language and literature...
    9 KB (1,116 words) - 21:40, 12 November 2024
  • Laurence (or Lawrence) Nowell (c. 1516–1576) was an English churchman, who became Archdeacon of Derby and then Dean of Lichfield. Laurence Nowell was...
    4 KB (477 words) - 19:14, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nowell Codex
    more famous. This second manuscript is known as the Nowell Codex, after the antiquarian Laurence Nowell, whose name is inscribed on its first page; he was...
    9 KB (1,102 words) - 00:15, 9 November 2024
  • Charlestown, Massachusetts Jack Nowell (born 1993), rugby player Jaylen Nowell (born 1999), American basketball player Laurence Nowell (c.1530–c.1570), English...
    2 KB (236 words) - 03:16, 10 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Burghal Hidage
    the body of the text survives in a transcript made by the antiquary Laurence Nowell in 1562. Version B survives as a composite part of seven further manuscripts...
    28 KB (4,057 words) - 16:09, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Lambarde
    was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, where he studied law. In 1568, with Laurence Nowell's encouragement, he published a collection of Anglo-Saxon laws, Archaionomia...
    10 KB (1,070 words) - 11:41, 7 November 2024
  • interpolations in the Old English Bede, by Laurence Nowell. His work on Nowell included the discovery in 1934, in Nowell's transcription, of the poem Seasons...
    6 KB (694 words) - 21:17, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wonders of the East
    8th century. The earliest known owner of the codex was antiquarian Laurence Nowell, who left his signature in the top margin of several pages from the...
    13 KB (1,791 words) - 16:52, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Beowulf
    The Beowulf manuscript is known as the Nowell Codex, gaining its name from 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell. The official designation is "British Library...
    96 KB (10,931 words) - 18:11, 18 January 2025
  • Sheldon, Warwickshire, on the estate bought in 1575 by his grandfather Laurence Nowell. He married at Holy Trinity, Minories, London. He was named within...
    5 KB (495 words) - 14:42, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
    ff. 39–47 in the manuscript. However, a transcript had been made by Laurence Nowell, a 16th-century antiquary, which was used by Abraham Wheelocke in an...
    57 KB (7,439 words) - 10:26, 18 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Alexander Nowell
    brother of Laurence Nowell, who became Dean of Lichfield. His sister Beatrice was the mother of John Hammond; Another brother, Robert Nowell, became Attorney...
    11 KB (1,389 words) - 14:50, 29 July 2024
  • 1731 and "Seasons for Fasting" was among the losses. The antiquarian Laurence Nowell had made a transcript in 1562, which was recovered by Robin Flower...
    3 KB (349 words) - 05:14, 28 May 2024
  • fragmented, but it is suggested that it was already fragmented when Laurence Nowell signed the manuscript in the 1500s. The quantity of the missing text...
    13 KB (1,840 words) - 18:11, 12 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cædmon's Hymn
    Sixteenth-century Old English West Saxon pp. 25-25 Transcription of Otho B. xi by Laurence Nowell, predating the loss of Cædmon's Hymn. O 279, Oxford, Corpus Christi...
    33 KB (3,454 words) - 05:57, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1515
    mathematician and surveyor (d. c. 1559) Jean Maillard, French composer Laurence Nowell, English antiquarian (d. 1571) Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and...
    18 KB (1,991 words) - 13:11, 6 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lewes
    traditional derivation of Læwe, first posited by the Tudor antiquarian Laurence Nowell, derives it from the Old English word hlæw, meaning "hill" or "barrow"...
    111 KB (12,203 words) - 11:59, 10 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
    House, he was briefly tutored by Laurence Nowell, the antiquarian and Anglo-Saxon scholar. In a letter to Cecil, Nowell explains: "I clearly see that my...
    81 KB (10,654 words) - 09:47, 17 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Exeter Book
    Some marginalia were added to the manuscript by the antiquarians Laurence Nowell in the sixteenth century and George Hickes in the seventeenth. Aside...
    23 KB (2,104 words) - 19:58, 11 January 2025
  • 1516 18 February – Queen Mary I of England (died 1558) approx. date – Laurence Nowell, antiquarian (died 1571) 1517 17 January – Henry Grey, 1st Duke of...
    14 KB (1,531 words) - 04:17, 6 September 2024
  • and scholars. Some of the earliest collectors and scholars included Laurence Nowell, Matthew Parker, Robert Bruce Cotton and Humfrey Wanley. Old English...
    69 KB (8,120 words) - 03:59, 6 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for William Camden
    learned Welsh and Old English for the task: his tutor in Old English was Laurence Nowell. In 1593 Camden became headmaster of Westminster School. He held the...
    26 KB (2,949 words) - 07:04, 24 December 2024
  • of singer Bradley Nowell and is the final studio album to feature him. By the time it came to record their major label debut, Nowell had been struggling...
    33 KB (3,064 words) - 21:23, 31 December 2024
  • medieval manuscript London, British Library, Cotton Otho B. xi by Laurence Nowell gives not the name Oeric and Oisc as found in Bede, but ósric and oese...
    8 KB (916 words) - 10:25, 14 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection
    gestae indicantur. ‘Frankfurt’ [i.e. Florence: Amadore Massi], 1637. Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, [Laws of King Ine]. Ca. 1565. [Lucas Halpap], [Nils...
    17 KB (1,896 words) - 01:22, 30 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Speed
    Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, a subject previously attempted (probably by Laurence Nowell) for William Lambarde's Archaionomia published in 1568. The "Gardner...
    78 KB (9,868 words) - 11:48, 7 November 2024
  • artistically coherent compilation. The text also contains glosses by Laurence Nowell from the sixteenth century or George Hickes from the seventeenth. Because...
    19 KB (1,408 words) - 00:43, 11 December 2024
  • transcriptions of chronicles and other historical material, including maps by Laurence Nowell; Bernard André's Life of King Henry VII; treatises on heraldry (2nd...
    61 KB (652 words) - 21:40, 26 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Claude Fauchet (historian)
    John Leland John Weever William Camden Jan Dousa Charles de Pougens Laurence Nowell Janet G. Scott Espiner-Scott, Janet Girvan (1940). "Claude Fauchet...
    19 KB (2,289 words) - 01:56, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1510s
    mathematician and surveyor (d. c. 1559) Jean Maillard, French composer Laurence Nowell, English antiquarian (d. 1571) Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and...
    446 bytes (22,005 words) - 17:49, 20 September 2024