![]() ![]() 105v: a bearded woman facing right, and an upright beast a long-haired woman holding a plant. ![]() 105r: a golden vine-tree three people talking, representing a kindly nation who rule the Red Sea, where the best pearls are found. 104v: a long-haired man in a cloak and tunic, whose eyes shine at night like lamps the temple called Beliobiles. 104r: a panotii, a man with ears projecting on stems, holding an object that looks like a bow. 103v: a tree from which balsam grows a donestre, a beast-headed man, on the left holding a human leg and foot, and a person on the right. 103r: two wheels side-by-side, representing lakes of the Sun and the Moon. 102v: a blemmya, that is, a man with his eyes and mouth in his chest two snakes a centaur or homodubius. 102r: a naked man holding a plant two men talking, and between them a lertix, a sheep-like beast. 101v: two elephants, resembling camels a two-faced man.f. 101r: a half-page miniature of three gold-digging, dog-like ants attacking a tethered camel, with a man in a tunic on the left with a camel, and a young camel tied to a tree. 100r: a cynocephalus, a man with a dog-like head. 99v: a double-headed serpent a serpent on the left and a deadly two-horned donkey on the right. 99r: a cock and a hen a creature with two bodies, two heads and eight legs. 98v: a single horned sheep, facing right two horned sheep, facing left. Decoration:Miniatures consisting of line drawings, with some parts coloured, illustrating The Marvels of the East, including:f. 107r–131v: Letter of Alexander to Aristotle ff. 98v–106v: Marvels of the East, with a series of miniatures (listed below) ff. 94r–98r: Homily on St Christopher (imperfect) ff. 175v (line 4)–209v respectively.Contents:ff. The hands of two scribes can be distinguished, responsible for writing ff. The 'Nowell Codex', containing a homily on St Christopher The Marvels of the East Letter of Alexander to Aristotle Beowulf JudithThese folios, sometimes called the 'Nowell Codex', contain several works in Old English, copied as a discrete unit in England in the very late 10th century or the early decades of the 11th century. 132r–201v: Beowulf, the unique medieval copy of the longest surviving epic poem in Old English ff. 107r–131v: an Old English version of the letter purporting to be of Alexander to Aristotle ff. 98v–106v: an Old English version of The Marvels of the East ff. 216, approximately two-thirds of the text is likely to be missing in comparison to Latin versions of the homily ff. According to Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon, no. 94r–98r: an Old English homily on St Christopher, beginning imperfectly. 94–209: the 'Nowell Codex' copied either at the very end of the 10th century or the early 11th century, comprising:ff. 93v: a homily on St Quintin (imperfect) ff. 86v–93v: the prose Dialogues of Saturn and Solomon f. 60r–86v: an Old English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus (begins imperfect) ff. 4r–59v: the Old English adaptation of Augustine of Hippo's Soliloquia, sometimes attributed to Alfred the Great (ends imperfect) ff. 4–93: the 'Southwick Codex' copied in the 2nd half of the 12th century, comprising:ff. 3r) and in French in the 2nd half of the 16th century (f. 3: a medieval endleaf, containing historical memoranda copied in Latin in the 1st half of the 15th century (f. This has been added in pencil in a modern hand f. James listed eight items in total but left a space blank for a description of the seventh item, comprising the Old English poem Beowulf. 1638) for Sir Robert Cotton, on an added 17th-century leaf. 2: a list of contents made by Richard James (d. Note: this leaf has now been removed to form Royal MS 13 D I/1, f. 3), containing historical memoranda copied in the 1st half of the 15th century and in the 2nd half of the 16th century.The full list of contents is as follows.Contents:: a 14th-century Psalter leaf re-used as an early modern endleaf, added to the volume while in the ownership of Sir Robert Cotton. 1638) after all the items had been bound together, on an inserted 17th-century leaf (iii) a medieval English endleaf (f. 37) (ii) a list of contents made by Richard James (d. 1, now removed to form Royal MS 13 D I/1, f. While in the Cotton collection, these two separate components were bound with three other leaves, as follows:(i) a leaf from a 14th-century Psalter (formerly foliated as f. 94–209), named after a former owner, dates from either the very end of the 10th century or more likely the early decades of the 11th century. 4–93), named after its medieval home, was made in the 2nd half of the 12th century. This volume, containing the unique medieval copy of Beowulf and other important texts in Old English, comprises two manuscripts of different origin and date, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (b.
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