An Anglo-Saxon fragment of Alcuin's letters in the Newberry Library, Chicago
David Ganz
Among the fragments in Newberry Library listed by Michael Masi 1972, 1 his item no. 15 was described as ‘ninth century’ and ‘insular’. When I examined them, two leaves of this fragment proved to contain portions three letters Alcuin, written Charlemagne late 790s. 2 Copies these are found several ninth-century Carolingian manuscripts, but only copy hitherto known survive from Anglo-Saxon England is an elegant volume now library Lambeth Palace, bound third part manuscript 218, at Bury St Edmunds. 3 Both 218 deserve consideration both on palaeographical grounds for what they reveal about literary interests England. This study explores circumstances which were produced, copied read, effort restore them ‘the place, traditions, influences, sources explain various aspects its composition contents; destination purpose; people who involved’. 4
Anglo-Saxon England