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The Old English Heptateuch and AElfric's Libellus de veteri Testamento et novo: volume I (Hardcover)
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The Old English Heptateuch and AElfric's Libellus de veteri Testamento et novo: volume I (Hardcover)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series
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The Old English Heptateuch is a translation of much of the first
seven books of the Old Testament from the Latin Vulgate into Old
English, done in the first years of the eleventh century. It is the
earliest known attempt at continuous translation of the Old
Testament into English, and is of particular interest as a witness
to the dynamic, but not yet fully understood relationship between
Latin and the vernacular in the monasteries of late Anglo-Saxon
England. The Heptateuch is a composite work, but much of the
translation was done by Abbot AElfric of Eynsham. The edition
includes his preface to the translation of Genesis, and also his
Libellus de veteri testamento et novo, a tract in which he presents
an exegetical survey of the Bible. This first volume contains the
general Introduction and the text; volume II will provide the notes
and glossary. This new critical edition, based on Bodleian Library
MS Laud misc. 509, replaces the EETS' original series 160, edited
by S.J. Crawford and based on a different manuscript; it collates
manuscripts and adds readings not then known. Richard Marsden is
Senior Lecturer in the School of English Studies at the University
of Nottingham.
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