What is it about?
This account is composed of two parts. In Part I a brief general survey of the Rushworth Manuscript (sometimes called the Gospels of Macregol) will be made by viewing several pages of the codex, and in Part II codicological or palaeographical problems will be discussed. The facts which concern those problems will firstly be described, and the description of those facts will be followed by conjectures founded upon them.
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Why is it important?
Modern readers can learn a variety of things from the MS about codicological and palaeographical techniques or intention of the ninth-century scribes and illuminator. The MS furthermore conveys us the history after its production. The MS includes the Old English glosses, marginal notes in Old English, later emendations in the original Latin text, and even an intentionally cut out oval hole. They are proofs afforded by the MS, and we can learn or conjecture palaeographical history of the codex through those facts.
Perspectives
I hope this account will stimulate people to become intereted in the study of the MSS of the Anglo-Saxon period.
Professor Kenichi Tamoto
Aichi University
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This page is a summary of: KENICHI TAMOTO Palaeographical Facts and Conjectures about the Rushworth Gospels (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D. 2. 19) 27, Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers,
DOI: 10.3726/978-3-0351-0120-1/8.
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