ENG 204 Lecture Notes - Caesura, Prefix, Walter J. Ong
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8th century ad the epic was composed. End of 10th or early 11thcentury ad the epic was written down by two scribes on the manuscript that survives today. In 1731 the manuscript survived a fire in the british library colton ms vitellius a. xv. Colton was one of the first collectors of old english books. He ran into the fire and through the book out the window. Vitellius: roman empire on colton"s shelf: x. v = 1th book on his shelf. Southwick codex: the first of the two main old english codices contained in colton vitelliis, it includes: The nowell codex: the second of the two main codices in colton vitellius, it includes: If you liked a particular work you would get your scribe to copy it. Because of the way manual scripts were produced in manual script culture. You have fragments based on what you could copy at a time.
