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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rollason, Lynda (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge (Suffolk, England) : Boydell Press, 2015.
Temas:
Thorney Abbey > History > Sources.
Thorney Abbey.
Thorney Liber vitae.
Thorney Liber vitae
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)
Church history.
History.
Sources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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