Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100

Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001). [VIII] + 188 pp. ISBN 0-8669-8283-3. $28.00/L24.00.

In 1981 Helmut Gneuss published 'A preliminary list of manuscripts written or owned in England up to 1100' in the journal Anglo-Saxon England. This was a major event in the study of Anglo-Saxon culture. It is not simply an inventory of manuscripts written and owned in England up to 1100, but a tool that enables Anglo-Saxonists to reconstruct libraries of particular scholars and repositories of learning, to study the intellectual life and manuscript production of the period, and to identify the transmission of...