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The Junius manuscript is one of the four major codices of Old English literature. Written in the 10th century, it contains poetry dealing with Biblical subjects in Old English, the vernacular language of Anglo-Saxon England. Modern editors have determined that the manuscript is made of four poems, to which they have given the titles Genesis ...
Introduction. “Junius 11” is the nickname of a manuscript of Old English biblical poetry, whose formal shelf mark is Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11. It contains the sole surviving copies of four long Old English poems, which modern editors have titled Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan. As these titles suggest, the first ...
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Mar 18, 2024 · Franciscus Junius, the Younger (born 1589, Heidelberg, Palatinate [Germany]—died Nov. 19, 1677, Windsor, Berkshire, Eng.) was a language and literary scholar whose works stimulated interest in the study of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and the cognate old Germanic languages. Son of Franciscus Junius, a French Protestant theologian, he was ...
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Early English and other manuscripts collected by Francis Junius (1589-1677). Franciscus Junius the Younger (1591-1677) was born in Heidelberg. Brought up among the Calvinist scholars of the University of Leiden, he began his career as a theologian. As a consequence of the religious quarrels between the Arminians and the Gomarists, he resigned ...
Franciscus Junius (29 January 1591 – 1677), [1] also known as François du Jon, was a pioneer of Germanic philology. As a collector of ancient manuscripts, he published the first modern editions of a number of important texts. In addition, he wrote the first comprehensive overview of ancient writings on the visual arts, which became a ...
Junius, two of his many faces, detail of an engraving by T. Bonner, 1770. Junius, the pseudonym of the still unidentified author of a series of letters contributed to Henry Sampson Woodfall’s Public Advertiser, a popular English newspaper of the day, between Jan. 21, 1769, and Jan. 21, 1772. Junius’ aims were to discredit the ministries of ...
