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UK LIBRARIES
Printed Dictionaries and Catalogues
Microfiche Resources
Bibliographies
ONLINE
Old English Corpus
Megasites
Aids to Learning Old English
Sources and Manuscript Studies
Bosworth-Toller Dictionary

UK LIBRARIES

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Dictionaries

Young Reference has the following Old English dictionaries:

Bosworth, Joseph. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth ... Edited and Enlarged by T. Northcote Toller (Oxford: Clarendon, 1882-98). PE279 .B5 (Also available in Special Collections, King Library South. 429 B655)

Toller, T. Northcote. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth : Supplement by T. Northcote Toller (Oxford: Clarendon, 1921). PE279 .B5 supp.

Hall, J. R. Clark. 4th edition, with a supplement by Herbert D. Meritt. A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960). PE279 .H180 1961 [available in paperback from Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching. ISBN: 0-8020-6548-1]

Catalogues

Also available in Young Reference:

Ker, N. R. Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990). Z6605 .A56 K4 1990

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Microfiche Resources

Important microfiche resources relating to the new Dictionary of Old English now in progress are available in Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH), 3-51 Young Library. (For access, call or email Linda Cantara, Program Coordinator for RCH, at 257-9549 or cantara@rch.uky.edu.)

Healey, Antonette di Paulo and Richard L. Venezky. A Microfiche Concordance to Old English (Newark, Del.: University of Delaware, 1980).

Venezky, Richard L., Sharon Butler, and Antonette Di Paolo. A Microfiche Concordance to Old English: the High-Frequency Words (Toronto: Dictionary of Old English Project, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1985).

Healey, Antonette di Paolo, Joan Holland, David McDougall, Ian McDougall, Nancy Speirs, and Pauline Thompson. Fascicles A-E. The Dictionary of Old English (Toronto: Dictionary of Old English Project, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1986-1996).

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Bibliographies

Old English Newsletter (OEN). Published for the Old English Division of the Modern Language Association of America. Young Periodicals. PR251 .O430. Annual bibliography of scholarly publications on Old English language and literature; annotated "Year's Work in Old English."

Anglo-Saxon England (ASE). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. King Storage Periodicals. DA152.2 .A75. Annual bibliography of scholarship in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies.

Greenfield, Stanley B. and Fred C. Robinson. A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature, from the Beginnings Through 1972 (Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1980). Z2012 .G83. Covers the literature previous to the OEN and ASE bibliographies.

Citing Electronic Sources: MLA Style

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ONLINE RESOURCES

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Searching the entire Old English corpus

Dictionary of Old English - Old English Corpus
Simple, boolean, proximity, and bibliography searches throughout the entire corpus of Old English.

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Megasites

Labyrinth: Anglo-Saxon Culture
Many links to websites devoted to Anglo-Saxon literature and culture.

ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies: Anglo-Saxon England
Gateway to multiple resources on Old English language and literature.

Old English Pages, Catherine Ball, Georgetown University
"An encyclopedic compendium of resources for the study of Old English and Anglo-Saxon England."

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Aids to Learning Old English

Old English Aerobics, Peter Baker, University of Virginia
Java-based instructional tools for learning Old English grammar.

Old English at the University of Calgary, Murray McGillivray
Online course in Old English language and literature; includes interactive "flashcards" and exercises for learning Old English grammar.

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Sources and Manuscript Studies

Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research
Western Michigan University

SASLC: Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
Website of collaborative project to produce a reference work of current scholarship on the knowledge and use of literary sources in Anglo-Saxon England.

Fontes Anglo-Saxonici:
Database of written sources "incorporated, quoted, translated or adapted anywhere in English or Latin texts which were written in Anglo-Saxon England (i.e. England to 1066), or by Anglo-Saxons in other countries."

The Electronic Beowulf
Kevin Kiernan, University of Kentucky
The complete user's guide to the digital facsimile edition on CD-ROM; also includes a bibliography of Beowulf scholarship and online articles.
Projects-in-progress:
- Alfred the Great's Old English Translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy: An Image-Based Electronic Edition
- ARCH-way: Architecture for Research in Computing for the Humanities through collaborative research, teaching, and learning
- The Digital Atheneum: new techniques for restoring, searching, and editing humanities collections.

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
Digital facsimiles of medieval manuscripts.

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Bosworth-Toller Dictionary

Bosworth, Joseph. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth ... Edited and Enlarged by T. Northcote Toller (Oxford: Clarendon, 1882-98).

Toller, T. Northcote. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth : Supplement by T. Northcote Toller (Oxford: Clarendon, 1921).

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