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Marvel and Artefact: The ‘Wonders of the East’ in Its Manuscript Contexts 3 Copyright 4 Dedication 5 Contents 7 Acknowledgements 11 List of Figures and Tables 13 List of Abbreviations 15 1: ‘The Manifold Uses of Things’: The Early Medieval Book as Artefact 17 2: The Wonders of the East and the Learned Tradition of Marvels 22 Introduction 22 A Brief Overview of the Learned Tradition 24 The ‘Wonders of the East’ and the ‘Letter of Pharasmenes to Hadrian’ 28 3: The Wonders in a Manuscript of Unknown Origin: London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xv 32 Introduction 32 Illustration 34 Homodubii 35 Cynocephali and Donestre 41 Other Similarities 44 Conclusion 47 Palaeography 51 Anglo-Saxon Square Minuscule: Scribe 2 56 Style-I English Vernacular Minuscule: Scribe 1 59 The Significance of Distinct Scripts in Vitellius A. xv 60 Codicology 64 The Consensus Quires 64 The Contested Quires 68 The ‘Wonders’ in Vitellius A. xv: ‘Speaking Beyond the Light’ 72 4: The Wonders and the Computus Manuscript: London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v 76 Introduction 76 The Origin and Audience of Tiberius B. v 78 Reading Books and the Monastic Library 81 The Materiality of Tiberius B. v 83 Page

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A. J. Ford

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