Revival: The Junius Manuscript (1931)

by George Philip Krapp

This book is the first volume in a collective edition, the plan of which includes all the surviving records of Anglo-Saxon poetry. The main body of Anglo-Saxon poetry as it has come down to us is contained in four important miscellany manuscripts, the Junius Manuscript, the Vercelli Book, the Exeter Book, and the Beowulf Manuscript, each of which will constitute a separate volume in this edition. The remaining minor and more or less scattered examples of Anglo-Saxon poetry will be grouped together, in a volume of volumes of their own.

Genres: Poetry

308 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 15, 1941

Reviews

[Neil · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first volume in an ambitious endeavour to publish the complete corpus of Old English Poetry. This volume contains the entire poems of the Junius Manuscript, often called the Caedmon group and contains the four poems of Genesis, Exodus, Daniel and Christ and Satan.

The book starts off with an introduction by Krapp and then his edited text, the final pages are taken up by his commentary type notes, which are extensive. The text is given modern punctuation and the extensive amount of corrections in the Junius manuscript are all glossed and commented on in the the footnotes.

A word of warning! This book contains no glossary and is not for the beginner in the subject.