Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Puzzling Scribes and Medieval Puzzles: Guest post by Dr Eleanor Jackson

Posted on 9 January 2018 by Special Collections

Note: readers of this post may be interested to learn that, since its publication, MS Gg.5.35 has been digitised in full and the images are […]

Christian Works, Manuscripts

Absence as Evidence: Recovering the Losses in an Eighth-century Gospel Book

Posted on 11 August 2017 by Special Collections

Guest post by Dr Eleanor Jackson

Manuscripts

‘A thing useful against evils’ – An Anglo-Saxon gospel book from Northumbria

Posted on 24 July 2013 by Suzanne Paul

For early medieval Christian communities, a gospel book was a treasured possession and, according to an Anglo-Saxon riddle, ‘a thing useful against evils’. The most […]

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