Beowulf revisited

English Studies

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 82-86

  Gerritsen, Johan ^a  

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EID: 0345763051     PISSN: 0013838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00138389808599115     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript. By KEVIN S. KIERNAN. Revised edition. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. xxx + 328. Price: $24.95.
2. Richard W. Clement, 'Codicological Consideration in the Beowulf Manuscript', Proceedings of The Illinois Medieval Association (1984) 13-27; David Dumville, 'Beowulf come lately: Some Notes on the Palaeography of the Nowell Codex', Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 225 (1988) 49-63; R.D. Fulk, A History of Old English Meter (Philadelphia, 1992); Johan Gerritsen, 'British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.XV - A Supplementary Description', ENGLISH STUDIES 69 (1988) 293-302; - 'Have with you to Lexington! The Beowulf Manuscript and Beowulf', In other words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicography presented to Hans Heinrich Meier on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (Dordrecht, 1989) 15-34; - 'A Reply to Dr Kiernan's Footnote' [i.e. to his 'A Long Footnote for J. Gerritsen's "Supplementary" Description of BL Cotton MS Vitellius A. XV' accusing me of plagiarism - a counsel of despair? - while avoiding the real issues], ENGLISH STUDIES 72 (1991) 497-500, resp. 489-96; Roland Torkar, 'Cotton Vitellius A. XV (pt. I) and the Legend of St Thomas', ENGLISH STUDIES 67 (1986) 290-303. The list could easily be extended, but space forbids.
3. Richard W. Clement, 'Codicological Consideration in the Beowulf Manuscript', Proceedings of The Illinois Medieval Association (1984) 13-27; David Dumville, 'Beowulf come lately: Some Notes on the Palaeography of the Nowell Codex', Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 225 (1988) 49-63; R.D. Fulk, A History of Old English Meter (Philadelphia, 1992); Johan Gerritsen, 'British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.XV - A Supplementary Description', ENGLISH STUDIES 69 (1988) 293-302; - 'Have with you to Lexington! The Beowulf Manuscript and Beowulf', In other words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicography presented to Hans Heinrich Meier on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (Dordrecht, 1989) 15-34; - 'A Reply to Dr Kiernan's Footnote' [i.e. to his 'A Long Footnote for J. Gerritsen's "Supplementary" Description of BL Cotton MS Vitellius A. XV' accusing me of plagiarism - a counsel of despair? - while avoiding the real issues], ENGLISH STUDIES 72 (1991) 497-500, resp. 489-96; Roland Torkar, 'Cotton Vitellius A. XV (pt. I) and the Legend of St Thomas', ENGLISH STUDIES 67 (1986) 290-303. The list could easily be extended, but space forbids.
4. Richard W. Clement, 'Codicological Consideration in the Beowulf Manuscript', Proceedings of The Illinois Medieval Association (1984) 13-27; David Dumville, 'Beowulf come lately: Some Notes on the Palaeography of the Nowell Codex', Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 225 (1988) 49-63; R.D. Fulk, A History of Old English Meter (Philadelphia, 1992); Johan Gerritsen, 'British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.XV - A Supplementary Description', ENGLISH STUDIES 69 (1988) 293-302; - 'Have with you to Lexington! The Beowulf Manuscript and Beowulf', In other words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicography presented to Hans Heinrich Meier on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (Dordrecht, 1989) 15-34; - 'A Reply to Dr Kiernan's Footnote' [i.e. to his 'A Long Footnote for J. Gerritsen's "Supplementary" Description of BL Cotton MS Vitellius A. XV' accusing me of plagiarism - a counsel of despair? - while avoiding the real issues], ENGLISH STUDIES 72 (1991) 497-500, resp. 489-96; Roland Torkar, 'Cotton Vitellius A. XV (pt. I) and the Legend of St Thomas', ENGLISH STUDIES 67 (1986) 290-303. The list could easily be extended, but space forbids.
5. Richard W. Clement, 'Codicological Consideration in the Beowulf Manuscript', Proceedings of The Illinois Medieval Association (1984) 13-27; David Dumville, 'Beowulf come lately: Some Notes on the Palaeography of the Nowell Codex', Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 225 (1988) 49-63; R.D. Fulk, A History of Old English Meter (Philadelphia, 1992); Johan Gerritsen, 'British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.XV - A Supplementary Description', ENGLISH STUDIES 69 (1988) 293-302; - 'Have with you to Lexington! The Beowulf Manuscript and Beowulf', In other words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicography presented to Hans Heinrich Meier on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (Dordrecht, 1989) 15-34; - 'A Reply to Dr Kiernan's Footnote' [i.e. to his 'A Long Footnote for J. Gerritsen's "Supplementary" Description of BL Cotton MS Vitellius A. XV' accusing me of plagiarism - a counsel of despair? - while avoiding the real issues], ENGLISH STUDIES 72 (1991) 497-500, resp. 489-96; Roland Torkar, 'Cotton Vitellius A. XV (pt. I) and the Legend of St Thomas', ENGLISH STUDIES 67 (1986) 290-303. The list could easily be extended, but space forbids.
6. Richard W. Clement, 'Codicological Consideration in the Beowulf Manuscript', Proceedings of The Illinois Medieval Association (1984) 13-27; David Dumville, 'Beowulf come lately: Some Notes on the Palaeography of the Nowell Codex', Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 225 (1988) 49-63; R.D. Fulk, A History of Old English Meter (Philadelphia, 1992); Johan Gerritsen, 'British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.XV - A Supplementary Description', ENGLISH STUDIES 69 (1988) 293-302; - 'Have with you to Lexington! The Beowulf Manuscript and Beowulf', In other words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicography presented to Hans Heinrich Meier on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (Dordrecht, 1989) 15-34; - 'A Reply to Dr Kiernan's Footnote' [i.e. to his 'A Long Footnote for J. Gerritsen's "Supplementary" Description of BL Cotton MS Vitellius A. XV' accusing me of plagiarism - a counsel of despair? - while avoiding the real issues], ENGLISH STUDIES 72 (1991) 497-500, resp. 489-96; Roland Torkar, 'Cotton Vitellius A. XV (pt. I) and the Legend of St Thomas', ENGLISH STUDIES 67 (1986) 290-303. The list could easily be extended, but space forbids.
7. Richard W. Clement, 'Codicological Consideration in the Beowulf Manuscript', Proceedings of The Illinois Medieval Association (1984) 13-27; David Dumville, 'Beowulf come lately: Some Notes on the Palaeography of the Nowell Codex', Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 225 (1988) 49-63; R.D. Fulk, A History of Old English Meter (Philadelphia, 1992); Johan Gerritsen, 'British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.XV - A Supplementary Description', ENGLISH STUDIES 69 (1988) 293-302; - 'Have with you to Lexington! The Beowulf Manuscript and Beowulf', In other words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicography presented to Hans Heinrich Meier on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (Dordrecht, 1989) 15-34; - 'A Reply to Dr Kiernan's Footnote' [i.e. to his 'A Long Footnote for J. Gerritsen's "Supplementary" Description of BL Cotton MS Vitellius A. XV' accusing me of plagiarism - a counsel of despair? - while avoiding the real issues], ENGLISH STUDIES 72 (1991) 497-500, resp. 489-96; Roland Torkar, 'Cotton Vitellius A. XV (pt. I) and the Legend of St Thomas', ENGLISH STUDIES 67 (1986) 290-303. The list could easily be extended, but space forbids.
8. Richard W. Clement, 'Codicological Consideration in the Beowulf Manuscript', Proceedings of The Illinois Medieval Association (1984) 13-27; David Dumville, 'Beowulf come lately: Some Notes on the Palaeography of the Nowell Codex', Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 225 (1988) 49-63; R.D. Fulk, A History of Old English Meter (Philadelphia, 1992); Johan Gerritsen, 'British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.XV - A Supplementary Description', ENGLISH STUDIES 69 (1988) 293-302; - 'Have with you to Lexington! The Beowulf Manuscript and Beowulf', In other words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicography presented to Hans Heinrich Meier on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (Dordrecht, 1989) 15-34; - 'A Reply to Dr Kiernan's Footnote' [i.e. to his 'A Long Footnote for J. Gerritsen's "Supplementary" Description of BL Cotton MS Vitellius A. XV' accusing me of plagiarism - a counsel of despair? - while avoiding the real issues], ENGLISH STUDIES 72 (1991) 497-500, resp. 489-96; Roland Torkar, 'Cotton Vitellius A. XV (pt. I) and the Legend of St Thomas', ENGLISH STUDIES 67 (1986) 290-303. The list could easily be extended, but space forbids.
9. It ought not to have been difficult to provide some marginal pointer in the text to warn the reader that the matter is revised in the essay.
10. It is not clear whether the special lighting that contributed to the retraction included a Povey lamp. Also cf. the final paragraph of my 'Reply' mentioned in note 2 above.
11. v-4.
12. v:19; I follow the present foliation) I see no ink-mark on the n; at 152:7 I would rather read 'tip' than 'top'; at 183:18 I concur that there is a slight ink-mark to the right of the shoulder of h; that it should be 'the start of the t-bar' only appears from the agreed testimony of the two Thorkelin transcripts, not from its shape. My other observations are mainly of this latter kind.
13. Much of what is said in the Re-Visions appears inspired by a wish to place the poem firmly in the Danelaw of Knud's time, and the MS in question is known to have been at Lincoln some three centuries after it was written.
14. v-40), such stains are in fact frequent in the Nowell codex (e.g. 110ff.) and often cause offsetting.
15. v-40), such stains are in fact frequent in the Nowell codex (e.g. 110ff.) and often cause offsetting.
16. For the full account see the final section of my contribution to the Meier Festschrift (cf. note 2 above), where the literature cited in the final paragraph is also recorded. Dr Kiernan has been aware of it since 1989.
17. v it may well have been prolonged exposure.
18. The view that it is has been well argued in Wilhelm Busse's Altenglische Literatur und ihre Geschichte (Düsseldorf, 1987), if again on debatable grounds. Cf. my review in this journal, vol. 73 (1992) 552-5.
19. The view that it is has been well argued in Wilhelm Busse's Altenglische Literatur und ihre Geschichte (Düsseldorf, 1987), if again on debatable grounds. Cf. my review in this journal, vol. 73 (1992) 552-5.