LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Exeter, Oxford, London, Vercelli
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Expeter, Oxford, Britain, Percelli
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Expecter, Oxford, London, Vercelli
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Execter, Oxford, Britain, Vercelli
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Detailed explanation-1: -Old English poetry has survived almost entirely in four manuscripts: the Exeter Book, the Junius Manuscript, the Vercelli Book, and the Beowulf manuscript.
Detailed explanation-2: -The survivors are the Vercelli Book, which contains a wealth of Old English poetry; the Beowulf Manuscript, the epic story of its titular hero; the Junius Manuscript, comprised of four long-form religious poems; and the Exeter Book, a 131-page manuscript filled with narrative poems, riddles, and elegies.
Detailed explanation-3: -In total there are about 400 surviving manuscripts containing Old English text, 189 of them considered major. These manuscripts have been highly prized by collectors since the 16th century, both for their historic value and for their aesthetic beauty of uniformly spaced letters and decorative elements.
Detailed explanation-4: -The earliest texts in English survive as very short runic inscriptions on metal objects and ceramic pots. The earliest substantial example of English is the lawcode of King Æthelberht of Kent (reigned c. 589–616), but that work survives in just one manuscript (the Textus Roffensis), made in the 1120s.