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Digital Facsimiles of BL Cotton MS Vitellius A XV

Cotton MS Vitellius A XV. n.d. London: British Library. British Library IIIF facsimile

Kiernan, Kevin S., ed. 2026. Electronic Beowulf: Fifth Edition. Electronic Beowulf 5.0



Transcriptions and Editions of the Old English Soliloquies

Carnicelli, Thomas A., ed. 1969. King Alfred’s Version of St. Augustine’s Soliloquies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Cockayne, Thomas Oswald, ed. 1864. “Blooms by King Alfred.” In The Shrine: A Collection of Occasional Papers on Dry Subjects, 163–204. London: William and Norgate.

Endter, Wilhelm, ed. 1922. König Alfreds des Grossen Bearbeitung der Soliloquien des Augustinus. Hamburg: H. Grand. Reprint, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1964.

Hargrove, Henry Lee, ed. 1902. King Alfred’s Old English Version of St. Augustine’s Soliloquies. New York: Henry Holt and Co.

Hulme, William Henry, ed. 1893. “Blooms von König Alfred.” Englische Studien: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 18: 331–56.

Junius, Franciscus. n.d. [Transcription of the Southwick Codex]. Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS Junius 70 (SC 5181).

Lockett, Leslie, ed. and trans. 2022. Augustine’s Soliloquies in Old English and in Latin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.



Other Primary Sources

Anlezark, Daniel. 2009. The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer.

Bately, Janet. 1979. The Old English Orosius. Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series No. 6. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Clemoes, Peter. 1977. Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies: The First Series. Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series No. 17. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cross, James E., and Thomas D. Hill, eds. and trans. 1982. The Prose Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Ritheus. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Dobbie, Elliott Van Kirk, ed. 1942. The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems. New York: Columbia University Press.

Ehwald, Rudolf, ed. 1919. Aldhelmi Opera. Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores Antiquissimi 15. Berlin: Weidmann.

Fulk, Robert D., ed. and trans. 2021. The Old English Pastoral Care. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Gebauer, G. L., and Bengt Löfstedt, eds. 1980. Bonifatius (Vynfreth), Ars Grammatica. Ars Metrica. Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 133B. Turnhout: Brepols.

Godden, Malcolm, and Susan Irvine, eds. and trans. 2009. The Old English Boethius: An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gwara, Scott, ed., and David W. Porter, trans. 1997. Anglo-Saxon Conversations: The Colloquies of Ælfric Bata. Bury St. Edmunds: Boydell Press.

Hecht, Hans. 1900. Bischofs Waerferth Von Worcester Übersetzung Der Dialoge Gregors Des Grossen. Leipzig: Georg H. Wigand.

Liebermann, Felix, ed. 1903. Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. Vol. 1. Halle: Max Niemeyer.

Malone, Kemp, ed. 1963. The Nowell Codex: British Museum Cotton Vitellius A. XV, Second MS. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile 12. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger.

Meritt, Herbert Dean. 1959. The Old English Prudentius Glosses at Boulogne-Sur-Mer. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Muir, Bernard J., ed. 1994. The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501. Exeter: University of Exeter Press.

Stevenson, William H., ed. 1904. Asser’s Life of King Alfred. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Weber, Robert, and Roger Gryson, eds. 2007. Biblia Sacra iuxta Vulgatam versionem. 5th ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft.



Secondary Sources

Carley, James P. 1992. “The Royal Library as a Source for Sir Robert Cotton’s Collection: A Preliminary List of Acquisitions.” British Library Journal 18 (1): 52–73.

Carley, James P., and Colin G. C. Tite. 1992. “Sir Robert Cotton as Collector of Manuscripts and the Question of Dismemberment: British Library MSS Royal 13 D. I and Cotton Otho D. VIII.” Library s6-14 (2): 94–99.

Förster, Max. 1919. Die Beowulf-Handschrift. Leipzig: Teubner.

Frantzen, Allen J. 1986. King Alfred. Boston: Twayne Publishers.

Gatch, Milton McC. 1986. “King Alfred’s Version of the Soliloquies.” In Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, edited by Paul E. Szarmach, 17–46. Albany: SUNY Press.

Godden, Malcolm. 2003. “Text and Eschatology in Book III of the Old English Soliloquies.” Anglia 121 (2): 177–209.

Harbus, Antonina. 2007. “Metaphors of Authority in Alfred’s Prefaces.” Neophilologus 91 (4): 717–27.

Heuchan, Valerie. 2007. “God’s Co-Workers and Powerful Tools: A Study of the Sources of Alfred’s Building Metaphor in His Old English Translation of Augustine’s Soliloquies.” Notes and Queries 54 (1): 1–11.

Holthausen, Ferdinand. 1904. Review of King Alfred’s Old English Version of Augustine’s Soliloquies, edited by Henry Lee Hargrove. Beiblatt zur Anglia 15: 321–28, 362–64.

Horne, Emma. 2024. “Rereading the Exeter Book: An Examination into the Codicological Patterns and Contexts in English Manuscript Compilation c. 950–1000 AD.” English: Journal of the English Association 73: 241–61.

Hudson, John. 2017. “Law and Land in Anglo-Saxon England.” In The Formation of the English Common Law: Law and Society in England from King Alfred to Magna Carta, 73–96. Abingdon: Routledge.

Hulme, William H. 1894. Die Sprache der Altenglischen Bearbeitung der Soliloquien Augustins. Darmstadt: G. Otto’s Hof-Buchdruckerei.

Hulme, William H. 1898. “The Old English Version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.” PMLA 13: 471–515.

Irvine, Martin. 1994. The Making of Textual Culture: “Grammatica” and Literary Theory, 350–1100. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Irvine, Susan. 2023. Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ker, Neil. 1957. Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kiernan, Kevin. 1996. Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript. Rev. ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Originally published 1981.

Law, Vivien. 1989. “Learning to Read with the Oculi Mentis: Virgilius Maro Grammaticus.” Literature & Theology 3 (2): 159–72.

Marckwardt, A. H. 1970. “Much and Many: The Historical Development of a Modern English Distributional Pattern.” In Philological Essays: Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature, in Honour of Herbert Dean Meritt, edited by James L. Rosier, 50–54. The Hague: Mouton.

Pauli, Reinhold. 1857. The Life of King Alfred. London: Richard Bentley.

Pollard, Graham. 2016. “Describing Medieval Bookbindings.” In The History of the Book in the West: 400 AD–1455, vol. 1, edited by Jane Roberts and Pamela Robinson, 183–98. Abingdon: Routledge.

Potter, Simeon. 1949. “King Alfred’s Last Preface.” In Philologica: The Malone Anniversary Studies, edited by Thomas A. Kirby and Henry Bosley Woolf, 25–30. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Robinson, Peter. 2015. “Self-Contained Units in Composite Manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Period.” In Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings, edited by Mary P. Richards, 25–35. Abingdon: Routledge.

Robinson, Peter. 2016. “‘The Booklet’: A Self-Contained Unit in Composite Manuscripts.” In The History of the Book in the West: 400 AD–1455, vol. 1, edited by Jane Roberts and Pamela Robinson, 159–82. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Sawyer, P. H. 1968. Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography. London: Royal Historical Society.

Smith, Scott Thompson. 2013. Land and Book: Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Smith, Steven E. 2000. “The Provenance of the Beowulf Manuscript.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 13 (1): 3–7. DOI for Smith article

Stanley, E. G. 1988. “King Alfred’s Prefaces.” The Review of English Studies 39 (155): 349–64.

Stanton, Robert. 2002. The Culture of Translation in Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge, UK, and Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer.

Szarmach, Paul. 2014. “Augustine’s Soliloquia in Old English.” In A Companion to Alfred the Great, edited by Nicole Discenza and Paul Szarmach, 227–55. Leiden: Brill.

Tite, Colin G. C. 2003. The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use. London: British Library.

Torkar, Roland. 1986. “Cotton Vitellius A. xv (pt. I) and The Legend of St Thomas.” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 67: 290–303.

Treharne, Elaine. 2016. “Invisible Things in London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.XV.” In Textiles, Text, Intertext, edited by Maren Clegg Hyer and Jill Frederick, 225–37. Martlesham, UK: Boydell & Brewer.

Treschow, Michael. 2007. “Wisdom’s Land: King Alfred’s Imagery in His Preface to His Translation of Augustine’s Soliloquies.” In Divine Creation in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Thought: Essays Presented to the Rev’d Dr Robert D. Crouse, edited by Michael Treschow, Walter Hannam, and Willemien Otten, 257–84. Leiden: Brill.

Whitelock, Dorothy. 1966. “The Prose of Alfred’s Reign.” In Continuations and Beginnings: Studies in Old English Literature, edited by Eric Stanley, 67–103. London: Nelson.

Wilcox, Miranda. 2006. “Alfred’s Epistemological Metaphors: eagan modes and scip modes.” Anglo-Saxon England 35: 179–217.



Dictionaries and Reference Works

Bosworth, Joseph. 2014. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online. Edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online

Cameron, Angus, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, et al., eds. 2024. Dictionary of Old English: A to Le Online. Toronto: Dictionary of Old English Project. Dictionary of Old English

Campbell, Alistair. 1959. Old English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mitchell, Bruce. 1985. Old English Syntax. Oxford: Clarendon Press.