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9781782044826
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1782044825
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The Thorney liber vitae (BL, MS Add. 40,000, fols 1-12v) consists of many hundreds of names written in the front of a tenth-century gospel book. This liber vitae is one of only three such compilations surviving from medieval England, the others being the Durham liber vitae (BL, MS Cotton Domitian A vii) and the New Minster liber vitae (BL, MS Stowe 944). Begun at Thorney abbey (Cambridgeshire) in the late eleventh century and continued into the late twelfth, it purports to be a record of the names of confraters of the abbey, that is of those people who, through their friendship and gifts to th
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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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
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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 2r�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
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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 GOLDSMITH�S ENTRY (4r1) -- (a) The Language of the Goldsmith�s Entry
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(B) Palaeographical Commentary on the Goldsmith�s Entry(c) Palaeographical Commentary on the Goldsmith�s Entry -- 2. THE ENTRY FOR THURSTAN OF STAMFORD THE MONEYER (10v57) -- 3. THE LANGUAGE OF FOLIOS 9v, 10r1a�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
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Thorney liber vitae (London, British Library, additional MS 40,000, fols I-I2R) ISBN 9781783270101
Sprache:
Englisch
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