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Cotton Vitellius A. xv British Library composite codex preserving the unique Beowulf manuscript. Prefixed Leaves front matter, including a seventeenth-century elenchus contentorum. Southwick Codex first of the two main Old English codices contained in British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv. It includes four items:
Nowell Codex second of two main codices in Cotton Vitellius A. xv. It comprises five items, including Beowulf:
For details see Kiernan, 'The History and Construction of the Codex,' part 2 of Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript. Thorkelin A - transcript of Beowulf, perhaps made by James Matthews, a member of the British Museum staff, for Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin in 1787. Now Ny kgl. Saml.
513 in the Royal Library of Denmark, and digitized in 1994 for this project.
Thorkelin B - transcript by Thorkelin himself, probably in 1789 or a bit later. Now Ny kgl. Saml. 512 in the Royal Library of Denmark, and digitized in 1994 for this project.
Conybeare - John J. Conybeare's 1817 collation of the Beowulf manuscript with the first printed edition of the poem, published by Thorkelin in 1815. Presented by Whitney F. Bolton to the British Library and digitized for this project in 1994. Madden - Sir Frederic Madden's 1824 copy of Conybeare's collation and Madden's own collation of the manuscript with the first edition, now in the Houghton Library at Harvard University (Houghton 28286.24.3*); digitized in 1994 and 1996 for this project. Electronic Texts - the new transcript and the new edition are meant to be used in tandem with the electronic facsimiles of the manuscript and the ancillary facsimiles. The Electronic Beowulf and all its resources, but especially the transcript and the edition, are expected to reopen a discussion of the text of Beowulf in an environment that encourages debate, revision, and continuing renewal.
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