Download or read book An Old English Martyrology (1900) written by George Herzfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1900, this Reader uses four manuscripts from the British Museum and Corpus Christi College Cambridge to present a thorough introduction along with a dual-language edition of the text. The original manuscripts, as Herzfeld demonstrates, are of varying qualities and comprise of the Anglian, West Saxon, Kentish and Mercian dialects. The re-edited text is presented alongside historical remarks, criticism of the manuscript, the text’s ultimate date and place of origin and an exploration of its potential sources.