Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Anlezark, Daniel

Titel

Understanding numbers in London, British Library, Harley 3271

Ist Teil von

• Anglo-Saxon England, 2009-12, Vol.38, p.137-155

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• London, British Library, Harley 3271 is a composite manuscript designed for use in teaching Latin, and contains Ælfric's Grammar beside other pedagogical works. The book also contains a large number of miscellaneous items, and fourteen scribal hands. Many of the texts point to the usual interests of the Anglo-Saxon scholar in computus and prognostics, while others suggest an interest in the tradition of numerical notes. The items written by Scribe C, the only one whose stints are spread throughout the blank space of the composite volume, point to a combined interest in education, numbers and the Jewish people.