Elizabeth Elstob and the Printing of Anglo-Saxon-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Elizabeth Elstob and the Printing of Anglo-Saxon

Published:2023-06-01 Issue:2 Volume:141 Page:197-233
ISSN:1865-8938
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Author:

Lucas Peter J.¹

Affiliation:

1. University of Cambridge Cambridge United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Abstract

AbstractElizabeth Elstob, known as “the Saxon nymph”, is much celebrated for her publications on Old English, Ælfric’s homily on St Gregory (1709), for example. HerRudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue(1715) was the first AngloSaxon grammar in English. It was also notable for introducing a new printing fount for Anglo-Saxon, one that reproduced almost every letter in an authentic imitation of that found in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the first fount to attempt this degree of authenticity. This paper explores Elizabeth Elstob’s publishing career through the medium of the means (and difficulties) of printing Anglo-Saxon. It also draws attention to another manuscript in Elizabeth Elstob’s hand that is not generally known.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ang-2023-0016/pdf

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1. *: Items preceded by an asterisk * relate specifically to Elizabeth Elstob.

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5. Berry, William Turner and Alfred Forbes Johnson. 1935. Catalogue of Specimens of Printing Types by English and Scottish Printers and Founders 1665–1830. London: Oxford University Press.