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Exeter Book Bib Class EXETER BOOK BIBLIOGRAPHY [Harris 2016] Editions Assmann, Bruno, ed. Bibliothek de angelsächsischen Poesie. Vol. 3.1. Leipzig: Wigand, 1898. [3rd edition of Grein and Wülker] Gollancz, Israel, ed. The Exeter Book: An Anthology of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. EETS O.S. 104. London: Kegan Paul, 1893. Grein, Christian, ed. Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie. 2 vols. Göttingen: Wigand, 1863. Krapp, George Philip and Elliot van K. Dobbie, eds. The Exeter Book. Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records 3. New York: Columbis UP, 1936. Mackie, William S., ed. The Exeter Book: Part II. EETS O.S. 194. London: Oxford UP, 1934. Muir, Bernard J. The Electronic Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter, Dean and Chapter MS 3501. Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies. Exeter: Univ. of Exeter Press, 2006. DVD-ROM. Muir, Bernard J. The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry. 2 vols. Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies. Exeter: Univ. of Exeter Press, 1994. Thorpe, Benjamin, ed. Codex Exoniensis. A Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, from a Manuscript in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, with an English Translation, Notes, and Indexes. London: Society of Antiquaries, 1842. Wülker, Richard P, ed. Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie. 3 vols. Leipzig: Wigand, 1883. Manuscript Conner, Patrick W. "The Structure of the Exeter Book Codex (Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS. 3501)." Scriptorium 40 (1986): 233-42. _____. Anglo-Saxon Exeter: A Tenth-Century Cultural History. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1993. [contains a bibliography up to 1991] Treharne, Elaine. “Producing a Library in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Exeter, 1050-1072.” RES n.s. 54 (2003): 155-72. Sisam, Kenneth, “The Exeter Book” in Studies in the History of Old English Literature (Oxford, 1953), pp. 24–30. Particular Studies of the Book itself Alger, Abdullah. “The Metrical Pointing in The Ascension.” Quaestio Insularis 7 (2006): 22–56. ———. “Two Drypoint Etchings in the Exeter Book.” Notes and Queries n.s.53, no. 2 (2006): 153–54. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjl008. Conner, Patrick W. “A Contextual Study of the Old English Exeter Book.” Dissertation Abstracts International - A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 36, no. 6 (1975): 3647. ———. “Four Contiguous Poems in the Exeter Book: A Combined Reading of Homiletic Fragment III, Soul and Body II, Deor, and Wulf and Eadwacer.” In The Genesis of Books, edited by Matthew T. HUSSEY and John D. NILES, 117–36. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. ———. “On the Nature of Matched Scribal Hands.” In Scraped, Stroked, and Bound, edited by Jonathan WILCOX, 39–73. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. ———. “The Old English Elegy: A Historicization.” In Readings in Medieval Texts, edited by David Johnson and Elaine Treharne, 30–45. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Dewa, Roberta J. “Of Editors and the Old English Poetry of the Exeter Book: A Brief History of Progress.” In Lastworda Betst, edited by Carole HOUGH and Kathryn A. LOWE, 18–40. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2002. Drout, Michael D.C., Michael J. Kahn, Mark D. Leblanc, and Christina Nelson. “Of Dendrogrammatology: Lexomic Methods for Analysing Relationships among Old English Poems.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 110, no. 3 (2011): 301–36. doi:10.1353/egp.2011.0059. Gameson, Richard. “The Origin of the Exeter Book of Old English Poetry.” Anglo-Saxon England 25 (1996): 135–85. doi:10.1017/S0263675100001988. Graham, Timothy. “A Parkerian Transcript of the List of Bishop Leofric’s Procurements for Exeter Cathedral: Matthew Parker, the Exeter Book, and Cambridge University Library MS Ii.2.11.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 10, no. 4 (1994): 421–59. Jacobsen, Cheryl. “A Modern Scribe Views Scribes of the Past.” In Scraped, Stroked, and Bound, edited by Jonathan WILCOX, 75–92. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. Kkabir, Ananya J. “Anglo-Saxon Textual Attitudes.” In The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, II, edited by Alastair MINNIS and Ian JOHNSON, 310–23. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Kato, Takako. “Exeter Scribes in Cambridge, University Library, MS II. 2. 11 + Exeter Book Folios 0, 1-7.” New Medieval Literatures 13 (2011): 5–21. doi:10.1484/J.NML.1.102437. McGovern, D.S. “Unnoticed Punctuation in the ‘Exeter Book.’” Medium Ævum 52, no. 1 (1983): 90–99. Muir, Bernard J. “Anthologists, Poets and Scribes in Anglo-Saxon England.” Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 1 (2005): 99–118. ———. “Editing the Exeter Book: A Progress Report.” In Medieval Texts and Images: Studies of Manuscripts from the Middle Ages. Ed. Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir. Pp. Xx, 224. Chur: Harwood Academic Publishers, 149– 76, 1991. ———. “Issues for Editors of Anglo-Saxon Poetry in Manuscript Form.” In Inside Old English, edited by John Walmsley, 181–202. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. ______. “Watching the Exeter Book Scribe Copy Old English and Latin Texts.” Manuscripta 35, no. 1 (1991): 3–22. doi:10.1484/J.MSS.3.1351. Pulsiano, Phillip, and Elaine M. Treharne. “An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Literature.” In A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature. Ed. Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne. Pp. Xviii, 529. Oxford: Blackwell., 3–10, 2001. Rambaran-Olm, Mary. “Two Remarks Concerning Folio 121 of the Exeter Book.” Notes and Queries n.s.54, no. 3 (2007): 207–8. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjm142. Roberts, Jane. “A Context for the Exeter Book: Some Suggestions but No Conclusions.” In Aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England, edited by Michiko Ogura, 31–48. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2014. Salvador-Bello, Mercedes. “Patterns of Compilation in Anglo-Latin Enigmata and the Evidence of a Source Collection in Riddles 1-40 of the Exeter Book.” Viator 43, no. 1 (2012): 339–74. doi:10.1484/J.VIATOR.1.102554. Sato, Shuji. “Interpreting OE poetry -- the integrity of the manuscript and the text.” Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Language, Literature and Culture 100, no. 215 (2007): 1–15. Symons, Victoria. “Reading and Writing in the Runic Riddles of the Exeter Book.” Quaestio Insularis 12 (2012): 126–48. Treharne, Elaine M. “Manuscript Sources of Old English Poetry.” In Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker, 89–111. Exeter: University of Essex Press, 2009. .
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