Vercelli Book

American  

noun

1. a codex of Old English poems and sermons found in the chapter house at Vercelli.

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Example Sentences

The Vercelli Book takes us back in the writings of Cynewulf to the eighth century; the Exeter manuscript looks back even farther and introduces us to the singers of heathen or semi-heathen times.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus

A reasonable conjecture as to how this MS. reached Vercelli may be found in Professor Cook's pamphlet, "Cardinal Guala and the Vercelli Book."

From Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems by Garnett, James Mercer

His poems, and some others, more or less doubtfully attributed to him, are contained in the Exeter Book and the Vercelli Book.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

The Vercelli Book had not yet been discovered.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster

There are two specially interesting collections of manuscript Anglo-Saxon poems, known respectively as the Exeter Book and the Vercelli Book.

From Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days by Hickey, Emily