THE BA TTLE OF MA LDON: David Casley's Transcript.
The article presents information about David Casley's transcript of the poem "The Battle of Maldon." Some features of Casley's transcript of Maldon may owe their presence to his experience of copying later documents, whether Latin or English, rather than to what actually stood in Cotton MS Otho A.xi...
| Publicado en: | Notes & Queries Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 147 - 156 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun1985
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| Sumario: | The article presents information about David Casley's transcript of the poem "The Battle of Maldon." Some features of Casley's transcript of Maldon may owe their presence to his experience of copying later documents, whether Latin or English, rather than to what actually stood in Cotton MS Otho A.xii. It has not yet proved possible to establish exactly when Casley wrote the transcript. Casley's attention must have been drawn to the manuscript containing The Battle of Mal- don in 1721 at the latest, for in that year paleographer Humfrey Wanley visited the Cottonian Library specially to look at it. |
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