Alexanders Saga: AM 519a 4° in the Arnamagnæan Collection, Copenhagen

by Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen (Editor)

Overview

The oldest manuscript of Alexanders Saga - AM 519a 4', from c. 1280 - is considered to be one of the most important extant pieces of Icelandic writing from the medieval period. Alexanders Saga is the Norse translation of Walter de Chatillon's epic poem about Alexander the Great - Alexandreis. This book is a facsimile reproduction of the original Old Icelandic text. It also includes an introduction, a commentary, and an annotation in English. It contains a quantitative analysis of the manuscript's palaeography, orthography, and phonetic system, as well as a lemmatized index. The accompanying CD-ROM contains colour illustrations of the complete manuscript and reproduces the text in a diplomatic and normalized version, allowing the user easy access to the three text levels, as well as other functions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788763526043
Publisher:	Museum Tusculanum Press
Publication date:	03/19/2009
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	27.00(w) x 21.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Kirsten Wolf is Professor and Torger Thompson Chair in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
Abbreviations and conventions

1. General introduction
1.1 The present edition
1.2 The Latin original
1.3 The Old Norse translation
1.4 Provenance
1.5 Paper manuscripts of Alexanders saga
1.6 Editions
1.7 Project description
2. Description of the codex
2.1 Cover
2.2 Material, numbering, measurements
2.3 Quires
2.4 Hands
2.5 Pricking and rulings
2.6 Marginals
2.7 Palaeography
2.8 Corrections
2.9 Sections
2.10 Word division
3. Orthography
3.1 Modus operandi
3.2 Vowels
3.3 Consonants
3.4 Abbreviations
3.5 Foreign words
3.6 Roman numerals
3.7 Spelling variation
4. Morphology
4.1 Nouns
4.2 Adjectives
4.3 Pronouns
4.4 Numerals
4.5 Adverbs
4.6 Verbs
4.7 Other word classes
4.8 Foreign words
Text of AM 519a 4°

Lemmatized index
Bibliography
Guide to the use of the CD-ROM

Editorial Reviews

Thorough in its analysis and clearly presented ... an exemplary, self-contained reference work.- Reference & Research Book News, May 2010.

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