Number

257

Shelfmark

Exeter, Cathedral Library, 3501, fols. 8-130 (the ‘Exeter Book’)

Date

x2

Origin

prob. SW England (or Canterbury CC??)

Provenance

Exeter by s. xi3/4

Note

ED [note that early editions and partial editions are not recorded]: complete manuscript: Krapp—Dobbie (1946), Muir (1994) [2nd ed. 2000]; individual poems: Juliana: Woolf (1955; rev. 1978); Christ I: J.J. Campbell (1959); Seafarer: Gordon (1960), Pope (1981), Klinck (1992), Cucina (2008); Widsith: Chambers (1912), Malone (1962); Wanderer: Leslie (1966; rev. 1985), Dunning—Bliss (1969), Pope (1981), Klinck (1992); Azarias: Farrell (1974); Maxims: Shippey (1976); Deor: Malone (1977), Pope (1981); Riddles: Williamson (1977); Resignation: Malmberg (1979; rev. 1982); Guthlac: Roberts (1979); Wife’s Lament, Husband’s Message, Ruin: Leslie (1988); Phoenix: N.F. Blake (1990)

Contents

• OE poetry): Christ I-III**
• Guthlac (A and B)**
• Azarias**
• Phoenix**
• Juliana**
• Wanderer**
• Seafarer**
• Widsith**
• Maxims I**
• Riming Poem**
• Physiologus** (Panther**, Whale** and Partridge**)
• Soul and Body II**
• Deor**
• Wulf and Eadwacer**
• Riddles**
• Wife’s Lament**
• Judgement Day I**
• Husband’s Message**
• Ruin**
• other shorter poems**

Bibliography

MSS

• Chambers et al. (1933) 55-67 [Förster]
• N.R. Ker (1957) no. 116
• N.R. Ker (1964) 82
• Parkes (1976b) 163 [repr. Parkes (1991) 160]
• Drage (1978) 347-8
• Pope (1978)
• McGovern (1983)
• Backhouse et al. (1984b) no. 153
• J. Hill (1986)
• J. Hill (1988) 4-9
• Muir (1991b)
• Dumville (1992a) 83
• Conner (1993)
• Conner (1994)
• Pfaff (1994) 61
• R. Gameson (1996b)
• Brantley (1999) 50 n. 22, 61-2
• Lapidge (2000a) 13
• Muir (2000) I. 1-44
• Orton (2001) 213, 222
• W. Schipper (2003) 161
• R.M. Butler (2004) 175, 178-9, 181, 183, 195-6, 199-204, 205-7
• Roberts (2005) 60-2 [no. 11]
• C. Bishop (2007b) 97-9
• Rambaran-Olm (2007) 207
• Cucina (2008) [bibliography]
• Graham (2009) 189
• Treharne (2009b) 99-101
• Crick (2012) 181
• R. Gameson (2012a) 24, 58-9 and n. 199
• Raw (2012) 460
• Scragg (2012a) no. 341

DEC

• R. Gameson (1995b) 223 n. 183

FACS

• Chambers et al. (1933) [complete facsimile]
• Muir (2006) [complete electronic facsimile]
• [facsimiles of individual leaves are too numerous to list, but note inter alia permulta]: Conner (1993) pls. I-VII [fols. 20v, 53r, 98r, 100r, 125r, 125v (details)]
• R. Gameson (1996b) pls. III-IV [fols. 45v, 1v]
• Lapidge (2000a) 13 [fol. 45v (details)]
• Roberts (2005) pl. 11 [fol. 32v]
• Owen-Crocker (2009) figs. 4.1 [fol. 8r], 6.15 [fol. 9r]

LANG

• Govern (1983) 90-9

ST

• Chambers et al. (1933)
• K. Sisam (1953a) 31-2, 97-108, 291-2
• Pope (1969) [study of missing leaf]
• Pope (1974) [study of lacuna]
• Bliss—Frantzen (1976) 385-402 [reconstruction and dislocation]
• Pope (1978) 25-65
• Greenfield—Robinson (1980) 20-1 [bibliography]
• Pope (1981) [damage and reconstruction]
• O’Brien O’Keeffe (1985) [Riddle 40]
• Muir (1989)
• Muir (1991a)
• Muir (1991b)
• Kiernan (1994a) 42, 44-6
• Frank (1998) 207-21
• Brantley (1999) [Descent into Hell]
• R.M. Butler (2004)
• J. Hill (2005a) 85
• Rambaran-Olm (2007) 207-8 [Descent into Hell]
• Treharne (2007a) 262
• Cucina (2008)
• Scragg (2012b) 553-4