Tables
1 Anglo-Saxon type-designs and the printers who used them in England and Ireland xxii
2 Anglo-Saxon type-designs used only on the continent xxiv
3 Manuscripts used for texts in the first printed book containing AS types 44
4 Other MSS used by those involved in the first AS type designs 45
5 Comparative summary of distinctive features in relevant AS MSS 47
6 Manuscripts from which Wheelock took text for printed books or surviving transcripts 110
7 Other manuscripts for which there is evidence of use by Wheelock 110
8 Other manuscripts for which there is presumed evidence of use by Wheelock 111
9 Summary of occurrence of distinctive/innovatory features in relevant AS MSS 112
Figures
1 Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 100 (s.xvi2), extracts from the bottom half of p. 280: Transcript of the Annals of St Neots in Latin, with Bede’s Death Song in Old English copied in later and overflowing the space left for it 10
2 London, British Library Cotton Vitellius D.vii, 6: John Joscelyn’s transcript of Ælfric’s 2nd Letter to Wulfstan in Old English 12
3a Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190, 156, lines 7–12: Latin text of Ælfric’s 2nd Letter to Wulfstan with Joscelyn’s underlining, cross-reference to the Old English text, and triquetra attention-mark 14
3b Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190, 342, lines 20–28: English text of Ælfric’s 2nd Letter to Wulfstan with Joscelyn’s cross-reference to the Latin text 14
4 Readers’s Anglo-Saxon type-specimen (AS1) from A Testimonie of Antiquitie (1566.2), L7v (CCC SP.281) 30
5 Reader’s Anglo-Saxon type-specimen (AS1) from Lambarde’s Archaionomia (1568.2), B2r (CCC Y.7.14) 31
6a Reader’s Anglo-Saxon type-specimen (AS1) from Ælfredi Regis Res Gestæ (1574.2), ¶1v (CCC MS 176) 32
6b Anglo-Saxon text (AS1) from Foxe’s AS Gospels (1571.1), 2G4v–2H1r, showing Lk 6–7 (CCC Y.7.17) 34–35
7 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 121, 80v, lines 12–23, from a Penitential, Bk III, §§1–2 49
8 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 114, 153r, lines 14–17, Passio Sanctorum Martyrum, Alexandri, Eventii & Theodoli, beginning 50
9 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 113, 56v, lines 13–15, Sermo in XL, beginning 50
10 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 113, 16v, lines 15–18, Sermo de baptismate, beginning 50
11 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 113, iv, Anglo-Saxon alphabet by (?) Joscelyn 51
12 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 113, viv, from a Calendar of saints’ days 51
13 Reader’s Anglo-Saxon type-specimen and text (AS2) from Foxe’s Actes and Monuments (1576.1), 23G4v/b (CPH E.11.17) 61
14 Lambarde’s handwritten Anglo-Saxon alphabet, Westminster Abbey 30, 2 62
15a Reader’s Anglo-Saxon type-specimen (AS3) from Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent (1576.2), 2¶3r (CUL Bb*.4.54) 63
15b Anglo-Saxon text (AS3) from Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent (1576.2), 2Z3r, showing part of the AS Law ‘Geþyncðo’ 64
16a Anglo-Saxon text (AS2/3) from Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent (1596.2), 2I7v–8r, showing part of the AS Law ‘Geþyncðo’ (CUL Syn.7.59.31). Note that Parkerian sorts are used alongside Lambardian sorts. 66–67
16b Errata page from Lambarde’s Eirenarcha (1581.1), 2L7v, showing the correction of s/r, þ/ƿ, Ʒ/ʒ, capital/lower-case (CUL Pet.E.6.15) 68
17a Portion of Illustration 13 enlarged (Parker/Day) 72
17b Sections from Illustration 15a reassembled and enlarged to allow comparisons (Lambarde/Newbery) 73
18a Reader’s Anglo-Saxon type-specimen (AS4) from Spelman’s Concilia (1639.4), *3v (CCC D.1.5) 90
18b Anglo-Saxon text from Spelman’s Concilia (1639.4), P6v, showing the beginning of the Laws of Wihtræd (CUL Ely.a.90) 91
19a Anglo-Saxon text from Wheelock’s edition of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica (1643.1), sig. D1v showing chapter headings set in AS 5 (CUL Pet.A.7.7) 95
19b Reader’s Anglo-Saxon type-specimen of AS5 (excluding square C) from Wheelock’s edition of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica (1643.1), ¶6v (CCC D.3.222) 96
20 Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 173, 47v: Anglo-Saxon Laws of Ine 4–5 99
21 Cambridge, University Library Ii.2.4, 90v, Exeter script of s.xi3/4: OE translation of Pope Gregory’s Cura Pastoralis, ch. 41 115
22a Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 419, 308: Anglo-Saxon homily ‘Larspell’ for the 4th Sunday in Lent, beginning 117
22b Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 419, 73: Anglo-Saxon Homily ‘Angelorum nomina’, beginning 117
23a Cambridge, Trinity College B.15.34, 79: Ælfric, Homily ‘Dominica III post Pascha’, beginning 118
23b Cambridge, Trinity College B.15.34, 319: Ælfric, Catholic Homilies I.xxiv ‘Dominica IIII post Pentecosten’, beginning 118
23c Cambridge, Trinity College B.15.34, 376: Ælfric, Catholic Homilies II.xxv ‘Dominica VIII post Pentecosten’, beginning 118
24a Cambridge University Library Gg.3.28, 44v: Ælfric, Catholic Homilies I.xiv ‘Dominica Palmarum’, beginning 119
24b Cambridge University Library Gg.3.28, 131v: Ælfric, Catholic Homilies I.xl ‘Dominica II in adventum Domini’ 119
24c Cambridge University Library Gg.3.28, 157v: Ælfric, Catholic Homilies II.ix ‘Sancti Gregorii Pape’, beginning. Note the cross-reference in Wheelock’s hand to ‘Serm.51’ (CUL Ii.1.33) 120
24d Cambridge University Library Gg.3.28, 255r: Ælfric, Anglo-Saxon version of De temporibus anni, Preamble and §§I.1–4 120
25 Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201, 190: Capitula of Theodulf, ch. xxi, §§ 22–30 121
26 BL Cotton Tiberius C.ii, 75r: Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica III.xvi–xvii 122
27 Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 188, 241: Ælfric, Catholic Homilies I.xxiv ‘Dominica IIII post Pentecosten’, beginning 123
28 Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162, 44: Anglo-Saxon Homily ‘Be þam drihtlican sunnandæg folces lar’, beginning 123
29 Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190, 236: from De Septem Ecclesiasticis Gradibus, ‘De Sacerdotibus, Lectiones de Pentecosten’ (= Fehr 1914: 243/7–9) 124
30 Cambridge University Library Ff.1.27, 35: from Historia Brittonum (Mommsen 1898: 192a/8–12) 124
31 Reader’s Anglo-Saxon type-specimen showing the Junian Pica Anglo-Saxon (AS6) cut by Christoffel van Dijck: Junius & Marshall, Gothic Gospels (1665.2), 2*4r (CUL Young 100). The figura ‘shape’ is shown on the left and the potestas ‘signification’ on the right 129
32a Punches made by Christoffel van Dijck, his Great Primer Italic A–P, at the Museum Enschedé (= Noord-Hollands Archief), Haarlem, Netherlands 130
32b The AS punches made for Junius, attributable to Christoffel van Dijck, at Oxford University Press Archive 130
33a Oxford University type-specimen (1695.1), e1r/e2r, showing the range of Junius’s types (CUL Broxbourne.d.46) 132–133
33b Text in Anglo-Saxon and other (Germanic) languages showing the diversity of Junius’s types in use: Gothic Gospels (1665.2), 22O3v (CUL Young 100) 134
34a/b Text in Anglo-Saxon and other (Germanic) languages showing the display potential of Junius’s types: Hickes, Institutiones Grammaticae (1689.3), sigs F1r, N4v (CUL Bb*.2.24(D)) 136–137
35 Oxford University type-specimen (1687?.1) showing the Somnerian Pica Anglo-Saxon (Morison/Carter 1967: pl. 11): OXC D.124, fo 9r 139
36 The Oxford University Small Pica Anglo-Saxon (AS8) in 1703/5.1 Booklet 5, †3D1v, lh col, lower two-thirds: CUL Pet.C.12.24 141
37 Alphabetically arranged Table of special phonetic sorts (CAS1) used by Sir Thomas Smith, De recta emendata Linguae anglicae scriptione Dialogus (1568.3), L1 (CUL M*.11.242(E)) 146–147
38 John Selden, Mare Clausum (1636.3), T5v, showing the Dutch ‘Boxhornian’ English-size Anglo-Saxon (CAS2.1) in an extract from ASC (C) 1052 (CUL Syn.8.63.364) 151
39 John Selden, Mare Clausum (1636.1), O8v, showing the Dutch Elsevierian English-size Anglo-Saxon (CAS2.2) in an extract from ASC (C) 1052 (CUL H.16.48) 153
40 John Selden, Mare Clausum (1636.2), S4r, showing the Dutch Mairian English-size Anglo-Saxon (CAS2.3) in an extract from ASC (C) 1052 (OBL Vet.B2.e.30) 155
41a The ‘Augustyn Engels-Saxische Letteren’ = the Blaeu/Voskens Pica Anglo-Saxon (CAS3) shown in the Heirs of Joan Blaeu type-specimen 1695.5, D1 (LUB Letterproeven 744D, no. 33) 158
41b The Blaeu/Voskens Pica Anglo-Saxon (CAS3) in the Widow Dirck Voskens specimen (1700?.2 (ante1714)), Proef van Letteren die te bekomen zyn, by de Weduwe van Dirk Voskens (LUB F.11:24). OE Bede, I.7 (extract), as Miller 1890–98: I.36/33 to 38/2 158
42 The Blaeu/Voskens Pica Anglo-Saxon (CAS3) in 1679.2, 2T3r (p. 333) 160
43 Reader’s Anglo-Saxon type-specimen showing the Janssonius English-size Anglo-Saxon (CAS4) in 1646.3, 2*2r (CUL Atlas.3.65.4) 162
44 Joannis Janssonius, Novus Atlas (vol. 4; 1646.3), 5Z2v: ASC(C+F) 189/188 (extracts), showing Anglo-Saxon text embedded in the Latin text (CUL Atlas.3.65.4) 163
45 Joannis Janssonius, Novus Atlas (vol. 4; 1646.3), 6A1v, showing words with Anglo-Saxon sorts in a head statement set in a Great Primer Roman (CUL Atlas.3.65.4) 163
46 Alphabetical arrangement of assembled Anglo-Saxon sorts found in Janssonius’s Atlas (1646.3) using CUL Atlas.3.65.4 165
47 Alphabetical arrangement of the Anglo-Saxon sorts (CAS5) found in the Strassburg edition of John Selden’s De iure naturali (1665.3) using CUL C.4.5 167
48 Reader’s specimen of the Anglo-Saxon sorts (CAS6) found in Du Cange’s Glossarium (Paris, 1678.2), vol. I on sig.
49 The Du Cangian Pica Anglo-Saxon (CAS6) as it occurs in text in the Frankfurt edition of Du Cange’s Glossarium (1681.1), vol. II, ¶2L4v–¶2M1r (cols 544–545, re-arranged) (CUL Pet.B.9.5) 171
50 The Wittenberg ‘Pica’ Anglo-Saxon (CAS7) as found in Selden’s Tituli Honorum of 1696.1 on sig. 22Z2r (p. 2365) (OBL Vet. D3 e.118) in a passage from Law II Cnut 71.1–5 (Liebermann I.358) 173