Old English Martyrology (1900)

<p>First published in 1900 this Reader uses four manuscripts from the British Museum and Corpus Christi College Cambridge to present a thorough introduction along with a dual-language edition of the text. The original manuscripts as Herzfeld demonstrates are of varying qualities and comprise of the Anglian West Saxon Kentish and Mercian dialects. The re-edited text is presented alongside historical remarks criticism of the manuscript the text’s ultimate date and place of origin and an exploration of its potential sources.</p>