The other three major codices of Anglo–Saxon literature (according to Wikipedia) are:
• | The Vercelli Book – in the Capitulary Library of the city of that name, in the Italian region of Piedmont (no one knows how it ended up there) |
• | The Nowell Codex – in the British Library (part of the Cotton Collection, on which the Library was originally based). This is most famous for containing the only surviving copy of the epic poem Beowulf |
• | The Junius or Caedmon manuscript – in the Bodleian Library, to which it was bequeathed by the Anglo–Dutch philologist Franciscus Junius on his death in 1677 |
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