The Thorney liber vitae (London, British Library, additional MS 40, 000, fols I-I2r) : edition, facsimile and study /: edition, facsimile and study. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lynda Rollason.
• Editors: Rollason, Lynda
• Contents: Frontcover -- Contents -- LIST OF PLATES AND FIGURES -- A Colour Plates -- B Black and White Plates -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ABBREVIATED REFERENCES -- PREFACE -- USING THE EDITION AND LINGUISTIC, PROSOPOGRAPHICAL, AND MANUSCRIPT COMMENTARIES AND THE INDEXES -- INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS -- HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION -- Thorney Abbey: site and situation -- Thorney Abbey: a brief history -- The Thorney Liber vitae: possible reasons for its production -- The Thorney Liber vitae: comparanda -- The Thorney Liber vitae: possible recopying and the inclusion of older materials The Thorney Liber vitae: period of useTHE MANUSCRIPT CONTEXT: THE THORNEY GOSPELS -- Codicology -- The original text -- Scribes and script: corrections and revisions -- The decoration -- History -- Appendix I. Textual corrections -- Appendix II. The lection marks -- Appendix III. The canon tables -- Appendix IV. The Old English glosses -- THE PERSONAL NAMES OF THE LIBER VITAE OF THORNEY ABBEY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ONOMASTICON -- Introductory note -- Old English names -- Scandinavian names -- Continental Germanic names -- Latin and biblical names Celtic namesINTRODUCTION TO THE PROSOPOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF THE THORNEY LIBER VITAE -- THE EDITION -- THE COMMENTARIES -- THE THORNEY LIBER VITAE: PLANNING, PRODUCTION AND PALAEOGRAPHY -- Introduction -- Folio 10r -- Folio 10v -- Folio 9v -- The augmentation of folios 9v, 10r and 10v -- Folio 3r -- Folio 3v -- Additions to folio 3v -- Folio 2râ€?v -- Folios 1v, 4r, 11r and 12r -- Conclusion -- THE ONOMASTICON -- A.1 Celtic Personal Names (Welsh, Irish and Breton) -- A.2 Continental Germanic Personal Names -- A.3 Old English Dithematic Personal Names A.4 Old English Monothematic Personal NamesA.5 Latin, Greek and Biblical Personal Names -- A.6 Scandinavian Personal Names -- A.7 Unassigned Personal Names -- THE PROSOPOGRAPHY -- ECCLESIASTICS -- A. Secular Clergy -- B. Regular Clergy (excluding abbots and monks of Thorney) -- C. Abbots and Monks of Thorney -- LAITY -- D. Laity: Royalty -- E. Laity: Aristocracy, Gentry and their Entourages -- NOTES ON INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES AND PAGES -- 1. THE GOLDSMITHâ€?S ENTRY (4r1) -- (a) The Language of the Goldsmithâ€?s Entry (B) Palaeographical Commentary on the Goldsmithâ€?s Entry(c) Palaeographical Commentary on the Goldsmithâ€?s Entry -- 2. THE ENTRY FOR THURSTAN OF STAMFORD THE MONEYER (10v57) -- 3. THE LANGUAGE OF FOLIOS 9v, 10r1aâ€?d AND 10v -- 4. THE THORNEY RELIC LIST, FOLIO 11v -- INDEXES -- Index 1. Linguistic Index: Manuscript Forms and Lemmata -- Index 2. Lemmata, the Linguistic and Prosopographical Commentaries and the Introductory Essays
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge (Suffolk, England) : Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 271; Church records and registers -- England -- Thorney (Cambridgeshire); RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations; HISTORY -- Medieval; Church records and registers; Thorney (Cambridgeshire, England) -- Church history -- Sources; England -- Thorney (Cambridgeshire); Electronic books; Church history; History; Sources; History -- Sources
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782044826; 1782044825
• Related ISBNs: 9781783270101; 1783270101
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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