Beowulf Manuscript

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Beowulf_Manuscript
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:manuscript
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Nowell_Codex
gptkbp:conservationStatus fragile
gptkbp:contains gptkb:Wonders_of_the_East
gptkb:Beowulf
gptkb:The_Letter_of_Alexander_to_Aristotle
gptkb:The_Passion_of_St._Christopher
gptkb:Judith
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:England
gptkbp:currentLocation gptkb:British_Library
gptkbp:date circa 975–1025 AD
gptkbp:destroyedBy gptkb:1731_Ashburnham_House_fire
gptkbp:digitizedBy gptkb:British_Library
gptkbp:discoveredBy gptkb:Laurence_Nowell
gptkbp:genre medieval literature
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Beowulf Manuscript
gptkbp:language gptkb:Old_English
gptkbp:leafType approximately 130
gptkbp:material vellum
gptkbp:notableCollection gptkb:Cotton_Library
gptkbp:notableFor unique Old English texts
gptkbp:script Insular minuscule
gptkbp:shelfmark gptkb:Cotton_MS_Vitellius_A_XV
gptkbp:significance only surviving source of Beowulf poem
gptkbp:studiedBy Anglo-Saxon scholars
gptkbp:writingSystem gptkb:Latin_alphabet
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:British_Library_Manuscript_Collections
gptkb:Nowell_Codex
gptkb:Vercelli_Book
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6