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MS Junius 11 (Cædmon, Junius manuscript or Junius manuscript of Oxford) is one of the four major codices of Old English literature. Although the poems are untitled in the manuscript, modern editors have provided the names ''Genesis A'', ''Genesis B'', ''Exodus'', ''Daniel'', and ''Christ and Satan''. The manuscript is in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. ==Name and date== The popular name of the codex is the Cædmon manuscript, after an early theory that the poems it contains might be the work of Cædmon; the name has stuck even though the theory is no longer considered credible. In more recent works it is commonly referred to either by its Bodleian designation MS Junius 11, or as the Junius manuscript or Codex Junius; 'Junius' here is Franciscus Junius, who published the first edition of its contents in 1655. It has been established on palaeographical grounds that compilation of the manuscript began c. AD 1000. Recent work has suggested an earlier, narrow window for the likely compilation date to 930-960, based on a coincidence of the style of illustrations. The compilation was in two stages: the initial version of the manuscript contained ''Genesis'', ''Exodus'', and ''Daniel'', and was the work of a single scribe. Later the final poem, ''Christ and Satan'', was added by several other scribes. The manuscript contains numerous illustrations that are a fine demonstration of Anglo-Saxon drawing on religious topics; it appears that two illustrators worked independently on the manuscript. The first scribe left spaces in the text for other illustrations which were never completed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cædmon manuscript」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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