Vercelli Book

noun

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

Example Sentences

Two of the greatest monuments of Old English culture, the so-called Vercelli Book and the Exeter Codex, were apparently produced during the earlier decades of the eleventh century, possibly as late as the accession of Canute.

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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.

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He is the author of four poems preserved in two MSS., the Exeter Book and the Vercelli Book, both of the early 11th century.

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In this Vercelli book the Dream of the Rood is contained, nearly in full, but written in the language of Wessex—i.e. the language commonly called Anglo-Saxon—the language not of Bede but of Alfred.

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The Vercelli Book had not yet been discovered.

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